The Hand of the Necromancer (Johnny Dixon, 2 Copies, Softcover
and Hardback), The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder (Johnny Dixon,
Softcover), The Specter from the Magician’s Museum (Lewis Barnavelt,
Softcover), The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost (Johnny Dixon, Hardback), The Beast
Under the Wizard’s Bridge (Lewis Barnavelt, Hardback), The Tower at the End of
the World (Lewis Barnavelt, Hardback, Illustrations by S. D. Schindler), The
Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost (Lewis Barnavelt, Hardback, Illustrations by
S. D. Schindler), The House Where Nobody Lived (Lewis Barnavelt, Hardback,
Illustrations by Bart Goldman.), and The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer (Lewis
Barnavelt, Hardback, Illustrations by Bart Goldman), by Brad Strickland.
Frontispieces by Edward Gorey up until ‘The Beast Under the
Wizard’s Bridge’, then Gorey passed away. It was his last published piece of
artwork before his death, apparently. Something about knowing these are
Strickland corpse-grinding puts a damper on my enthusiasm; he also began
leaning rather heavily on borrowings from M. R. James, which Bellairs did
sometimes as well, but with a lighter hand. I was relieved when Strickland
stopped and so could I.
Ranking: Keepers.
File Code: Juvenile Fantasy Series. Fantasy/Horror.
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