Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass are visiting a New Hampshire inn, and inside that inn is a clock.
Bellairs was a prolific writer, publishing more than one dozen novels before his untimely death in 1991..
Fidgeta and Other Parodies and The Pedant and the Shuffly.
His solo novel The Face in the Frost is also regarded as a fantasy classic, and among his earlier works are St.
Among the titles in that series are The Curse of the Blue Figurine
The Mummy, The Will, and The Crypt
The Spell of the Sorcerer\'s Skull; and others.
He also wrote a series of novels featuring the character Johnny Dixon.
His series about the adventures of Lewis Barnavelt and his uncle Jonathan, which includes The House with a Clock in Its Walls, is a classic. -Kirkus Reviews John Bellairs is beloved as a master of Gothic young adult novels and fantasies. -School Library Journal Brace yourself for a wild ride.
This is among his best and that\'s really saying something. . .
Is there no end to the suspense John Bellairs can create? . . .
Little do they know the terrifying danger that awaits them there .
To get him back, Johnny and his friends Fergie and Father Higgins must race to the deserted islands off the coast of Maine.
In this third Johnny Dixon mystery, Johnny takes the Skull to try to solve the murder of the professor\'s granduncle, but when he does, it unleashes dark forces that take the professor away.
Inside that Skull is something evil.
And on one of the shelves in that tiny room is a tiny skull.
Inside the clock there is a tiny dollhouse room, an exact replica of the professor\'s childhood home.
It\'s called the Childermass Clock.
Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass are visiting a New Hampshire inn, and inside that inn is a clock
