John Bellairs
John Bellairs, born in Marshall, Michigan in 1938, became well-known for his Gothic children's novels, frightening stories filled with wizards, haunted houses, magic, ghosts, and young "detectives" in the painful process of growing up.
His hometown was filled with large, unusual houses-something that was to later haunt his novels. New Zebedee, a town used in his most popular books, is a stylized version of Marshall, Michigan. The house that the protagonist lived in was based on a particular house in Marshall, a house called the Cronin House at 407 N. Madison Street. The house was named a historical landmark in September 1992 and is now open to public tours.
Bellairs attended both the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago and was an English professor at many universities around the country. He said his interests were "archaeology, history, Dickens, wine-tasting, cheese, Latin, and trivia."
Bellairs died in 1991, leaving Brad Strickland to finish several of his uncompleted manuscripts.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies |
The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb |
The Pedant and the Shuffly |
The Eyes of the Killer Robot |
The Face in the Frost |
The Trolley to Yesterday |
The Chessmen of Doom |
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The Figure in the Shadows |
The Secret of the Underground Room |
The Letter, The Witch and The Ring |
The Mansions in the Mist |
The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn |
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The Curse of the Blue Figurine |
Completed by Brad Strickland |
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt |
The Ghost in the Mirror |
The Dark World of Weatherend |
The Vengeance of the Witch Finder |
The Spell of Sorcerer's Skull |
The Doom of the Haunted Opera |
The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost |
The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie |
