Review: Spellbinder "[A] Suspenseful Novel Will Engage Readers"

Book review: The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder

Review: Weatherend "Atmosphere...Is Creepy And A Little Chilling"

Book review: The Dark Secret of Weatherend

Review: Vengeance "Full of Deliciously Spooky Occurrences"

Book review: The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder

Review: Whistle "Will Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seats"

Book review: The Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost

Review: Pedant "A One-of-a-Kind Book From a One-of-a-Kind Writer"

Book review: The Pedant and the Shuffly

Review: Tower "A Fun Read For Bellairs Fans"

Book review: The Tower at the End of the World

Review: Revenge "A Must-Read for...Any Fan of the Gothic Mystery Genre"

Book review: The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost

Review: Hand "Fun...Quick and Shivery"

Book review: The Hand of the Necromancer

Researching the Phoenix

We want to learn more about John Bellairs’s contributions to the Phoenix, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based weekly newspaper. It’s a long shot, we know, being almost 40 years after the fact, but that hasn’t stopped us before - and we've found answers before, too.

Here is what we know:

Review: Face "Delicacy And Fine Balances Make Its Whole Greater Even Than The Sum Of Its Parts"

Book review: The Face in the Frost

Review: House "High Fright Factor...Loaded with Laughs"

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls

Book Alert: The House Where Nobody Lived

>Amazon notes that you can now pre-order the new Lewis Barnavelt book by Brad Strickland, The House Where Nobody Lived, scheduled for release in October, 2006.

Sad Girl In The Snow

Traipsing through the trenches and we came across this odd but entertaining crossover of Narnia and the Southern Kingdom by a user named necreavit.

Edward Gorey Artwork

Kevin McDermott of Gotham Book Mart in New York City passes along word that original Edward Gorey artwork for three Brad Strickland novels are for sale via ABEbooks.com. The titles are The Bell, the Book and the Spellbinder; The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost; and The Hand of the Necromancer. They'd make great Christmas presents for your favorite Bellairs-fan this holiday season.

Book Alert en français

It’s been a busy time in France for the books of John Bellairs (and Brad Strickland): La Tour de la fin du monde, the ninth book in the Kévin et les magicians series, was released this past June. In Johnny Dixon news, La Vengeance du fantôme was published in November and Les yeux du robot tueur is scheduled for release in February 2006.