Review: House "Great Gothic Writing, Brings Back Fun Memories"

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls

Review: House "Scared The Crap Out Of Me As A Child"

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls

Review: House "Deceptively Sweet Story That Packs A Creepy Wallop"

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls

Review: House "Creepy And Disturbing And Awesome On A Deeper Level"

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls

50th Annual Historic Home Tour

The 50th Annual Historic Home Tour of Marshall, Michigan features eight of the city's most outstanding privately owned homes, as well as an historic church and the city's best-known museums: Honolulu House, Walters Gasoline Museum, American Museum of Magic, GAR Hall, DAR Governor's Mansion, the Calhoun County Fair Museums, Maple Grove Church and School, and the Capitol Hill School.

Interview: Charles Pieper

It’s been a couple of years now but we first encountered Charles Pieper when we read that he’d written a screenplay for The Curse of the Blue Figurine. You know – just for fun. We thought we’d check in with him after all these years and were surprised to learn just how busy he’s been. Since we’ve talked Pieper has studied film at Emerson, FAMU in Prague, and CalArts; become a director, stop motion animator, editor, and monster maker; directed music videos for numerous of bands (with names such as Brit and the Cavalry, Dufus, Quitzow, and YesMisterBloodVessel, plus scores more); and had his animations and films shown in festivals in cities as varied as New York City, Seattle, Toronto, Poland, Madrid, Kiev, and Tokyo. Oh, and Kentucky, too. On top of all that he’s taken some time out this summer to chat with us.  He's the one on the right.

Something About the New Zebedee Water Tower

Pipe dream.

See Thy Nero Shine

We’re a bit slow in our spring cleaning this year. Only recently did we undertake some minor website clean-up as well as some cleaning out the email account’s inbox. One item we found was a September 2003 email from Ms. Tracey Siddle who at the time was working toward an MA at Sheffield Hallam University.

For one of my units, we are doing ‘Editing a Renaissance Play’ and my choice is the anonymous Tragedy of Nero (1624.) Whilst scrolling around I noticed that this is the same topic that Mr Bellairs did his Doctoral Thesis on. I would subsequently be extremely grateful for any information proferred or if you could even direct me to a copy of the thesis so that I might glean what insight I can.

Higgeldy-piggeldy, and So On

The 1950's in Winona

Minnesota author Kent Stever has published his first book, Growing Up on the Mississippi: the 1950's in Winona, MN. We doubt he had any run-ins with Anthony Monday but you never know. NorthField.org has an article about his August reading and some information on the book:

Review: Mummy "Macabre and not Gross...Honest, But Yet A Good Yarn"

Book review: The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt

Review: House "Enjoy[ed]...Be Prepared For a Slower Pace

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls

"House" at 40 Fan Art: Selena Izard: Breaking Out, Bad to the Bone

Who’s Who: John Dee

After moving into his uncle’s house Lewis Barnavelt spends time going through a lot of books, including one whose frontispiece is an engraving of this person raising the spirit of a dead woman [The House with a Clock in its Walls; 67-8].

Review: House "Everyone Who Had A Childhood Can Relate To Lewis’s Desperation"

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls