Review: Face "One of the Greatest Fantasy Novels of All Time"

Book review: The Face in the Frost

Time Capsule: 1820

January 1820: 190 years ago this month, the John Keats poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” was first published. The five stanzas that make up the well-known verse include such lines as:

Review: House "Gripping, Often Amusing, and Definitely Spine Tingling"

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls

Goreyana: The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt

Notes from Goreyana about The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt:

I own the original watercolor artwork for the cover portion of the dust jacket. This watercolor is very painterly with its stormy night sky, and I really like the use of opaque watercolor for the snow and lightning. The touch of red in Johnny's jacket plays nicely against Mr. Gorey's "mushroom colors" in the rest of the painting.

Review: Curse "Omniscient Narrator...Much Too Explanatory"

Book review: The Curse of the Blue Figurine

Still Even More About Widow's Walk Lake

Filmmaker and Bellairs-fan James Strayer passes along the teaser trailer for his film, Widow's Walk Lake.

Something About the Twelve Terrors of Christmas

Sarah Janet at the I Have Good Book blog has a few comments on John Updike's The Twelve Terrors of Christmas:

The Recipe For Disaster

Here’s some fan fiction about Johnny Dixon that really takes the cake this holiday season!  Happy reading!

Always Take the Weather Vane With You

We recently found JT wrote at LiveJournal about a specific weathervane being something of an inspiration.

Review: Mummy "Has A Jaunty Style That Keeps It From Getting Too Dark"

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

A Celebration of John Bellairs

by Schuyler E. Eastin (Nov. 2, 2009)
(originally published at theeastincollection.blogspot.com)

Let's Bellairs: "Weird, wicked, dark black magic against the powers of Catholicism"

by Let's Yes (Nov. 12, 2009)

(Originally published at letsyes.blogspot.com)

Review: Wrath "Extremely Outlandish Plot, Even For This Genre"

Book review: The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost

Sharing The Faith

We were reviewing contents of the archives in the interest of shining some new light on old discussions when we came across this recollection:

I was at the local Barnes and Noble yesterday when I encountered an older man looking for Harry Potter for a grandchild. I pointed them out to him...then I said that if the child liked that series, there was another series he would also like.. It was not quite on such a grand scale as the Rowling books, but it was another very good series, and was even set in nearby Marshall. I showed him the Lewis Barnavelt collection and I think he got both sets. This is not the first time I have told a Potter buyer about John Bellairs.

Time Capsule: 1979

It’s hard to believe but thirty years ago The House with a Clock in its Walls made it to television.