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What’s What: Doomsday Clock

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:55:00 PDT

A device hidden in the walls of the Barnavelt House that, when wound properly, will bring about the End of the World [The House with a Clock in its Walls; 133-6]. This isn’t to diminish the...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Time Capsule: May 1, 1983

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:21:55 PDT

May 1, 1983: We’re celebrating thirty years of evil charms, disappearing priests, strange spiders, and – of course – the ushabti. Dial Books published The Curse of the Blue Figurine on May 1,...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

BiblioFile: House/Ghost Flip Book (2002, Puffin)

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:08:01 PDT

Whoever said two books are better than one probably meant well. Then someone came up with tête-bêche and quite possibly blew the mind of that original person. Let’s take a step back, first. To...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

2013 Edward Gorey House Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:00:38 PDT

The Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts opened their newest season on Thursday, April 18, with an exhibit celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Vinegar Works. Published by...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Who’s Who: David Rizzio

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:00:16 PDT

Before bed, Lewis reads Stoddard’s account of the murder of this member of the Scottish court [The House with a Clock in its Walls; 19]. David Rizzio (1533-66) was a native of Italy who rose to...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Time Capsule: April 5, 1993

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:05:00 PDT

April 5, 1993: We’re pleased to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Ghost in the Mirror this month - not just the celebrated return of Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger but the debut of...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Fandæmonium: Alternate Histories in Children’s Literature

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:56:00 PDT

An email appeared late last week regarding an entry at the Academic Call For Paper Database seeking scholarly papers on the subject of alternate history in the children’s literature...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Where's There: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:16:38 PDT

Until recently before the events of the book, Lewis had lived with his parents in a small town near this large city in eastern Wisconsin [The House with a Clock in its Walls; 4]. Milwaukee is the...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

The House with a Clock in its Walls (1974, Dell)

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sun, 19 May 2013 06:03:05 PDT

In addition to The House with a Clock in its Walls being Bellairs’ “first book for young readers,” it was also his first book to hit paperback. Ace first released The Face in the Frost in 1978 but it...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

What's What: Fusebox Dwarf

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:00:09 PST

For Christmas Uncle Jonathan created something called the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, “Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

BiblioFile: The House with a Clock in its Walls (UK)

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:00:06 PST

A mere five years after The House with a Clock in its Walls was published in the United States it was unleashed in the United Kingdom by Hutchinson and Company, the first of three Bellairs titles so...

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Alert: La casa nella bruma

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 06:25:53 PST

We don’t know much more at this point other than it seems artist Alexander Daniloff is at it again for Happy Planet Books. The Italian publishers released the original Lewis Barnavelt trilogy not...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Who’s Who: John Stoddard

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:00:11 PST

A book Lewis finds in his uncle’s house is Volume IX of Stoddard's Lectures, labeled "Scotland, England, and London" [The House with a Clock in its Walls; 18-9]. If you think Bellairs would have...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

BiblioFile: A Maldição do Relógio

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:00:02 PST

The works of John Bellairs branched into Portugal with A Maldição do Relógio released by Editorial Presence in 2006. From what we can tell, however, the introduction was short-lived as this is the...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Fandæmonium: A Gentleman of Brave Metal

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:00:04 PST

In what probably will be our last post for 2012 we note that one of Hamish Runcet’s prophecies has gotten a makeover. Or something like that. First Runcet. Chapter 10 of Saint Fidgeta and Other...

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Where’s There: The Hagway

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:00:05 PST

Having been given 24 hours to prove his existence (and come up with a way to defeat Snodrog), Sir Bertram wanders the land until he comes to this road winding “through country vaguely reminiscent of...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Alert: Anthony Monday & eReads

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:56:39 PDT

Spend your holiday season in Hoosac! eReads, the oldest independent digital publisher in the field bringing out-of-print books back in electronic formats, has released the first book in the...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Where’s There: Hellespont

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:00:04 PST

Standing in Leander’s Tower in 1453, Professor Childermass says that the tower “stands on a tiny spit of land in the Hellespont, the narrow body of water that runs between the Black Sea, which north...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Fandæmonium: Is there still room for scares...?

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:05:17 PDT

We were surprised this morning to read an interesting tribute to John Bellairs and The House with a Clock in its Walls by Erik Adams at the Onion AV Club: Bellairs’ tendency to repeat himself...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Where’s There: Rocks Village Bridge

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:33:27 PDT

Father Higgins has been relocated from Duston Heights to Rocks Village, described as a tiny cluster or picturesque eighteenth-century houses near a seventy-year-old iron bridge [The Secret of the...

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Dickens, Schuler & Bellairs V

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:00:08 PDT

We’re celebrating the 200th anniversary of celebrated author Charles Dickens’ birth this year. Born February 7, 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, England, Dickens created a plethora of memorable...

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Memoriam: Herbert Lom

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:52:48 PDT

Actor Herbert Lom – the last of the lady killers – has died. He was 95. A native of Prague, his first picture was a very early Czech film, Zena Pod Krizem (1937), that he participated in before...

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Where's There: Cemetery Island

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:00:02 PDT

Described as "just a dot on the map out in Hurricane Sound, not far from Vinalhaven," this island on the southeastern coast of Maine was home to Warren Windrow in the 1840s [The Spell of the...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.

Book Alert: Gorey's Halloween, Ghosts, and Saint Melissa

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:32:33 PDT

You read it first at Goreyana earlier this year...new books by Edward Gorey. On September 4, Bloomsbury released Halloween Treat/Edward Gorey's Ghosts. It’s a flip book: read one direction, “kids...

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2012 Living History Portrayal Walk

noreply@blogger.com (John Bellairs) — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:00:17 PDT

Marshall's Oakridge Cemetery was first used in 1839 and is one of the oldest continuously operated cemeteries in the state. For the twelfth year in a row Oakridge will be home to the "If These...

Award-winning, best-selling author John Bellairs: his life, his work, his legacy.