We found a rather odd story earlier this week from our friends at the Online Museum of Hoaxes: a musical about the Cardiff Giant . If you...

November, 1966 : Of all the silly things we’ve read, heard, and seen about the life of Saint Fidgeta, nothing seems more absurd then it be...

Will Duquette penned some thoughts about reading The Face in the Frost years ago, and only reading - and learning about - Bellairs's l...

by the Chronicler of Mare Caelorum  (Oct. 16, 2006) ( Originally published at thousandbookchronicle.blogspot.com )

Book review:  The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

The High Street wizards are coming back to you! Today! After a three-year hiatus, Brad Strickland returns as author of the newest spooky...

The second in an occasional series about where John Bellairs lived during his time in Chicago . We've already touched upon Bellairs'...

Book review: The Curse of the Blue Figurine

One thing led to another recently and the end result was watching the old, eerie extended animated openings of the PBS program, Mystery! T...

In honor of National Talk Like a Pirate Day we bring forth an exciting account of this roarin’ tale of the sea from one Long John Bellairs,...

Oakridge Cemetery, one of the oldest continuously operated cemeteries in Michigan, is home again this year to the annual Living History Port...

Book review: The Curse of the Blue Figurine

Maybe it's the fact we've been doing this for years and all our research is taking its toll. Maybe it’s the expectation of trying to...

August, 1992 : 14 years ago this August, John's last book was published a year after his untimely death. The Mansion in the Mist , with...

One of the first things we did when setting out to find people with memories of John when we began this project was identifying those indivi...