John Bellairs

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    August 2021
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Full Series List in Order

An Anthony Monday Mystery

1 - The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (May-1978)
2 - The Dark Secret of Weatherend (Feb-1984)
3 - The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb (May-1988)
The Mansion in the Mist (Aug-2004)

A Johnny Dixon Mystery

1 - The Curse of the Blue Figurine (1983)
2 - The Mummy, the Will and the Crypt (Feb-1985)
3 - The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost (Nov-1985)
4 - The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull (Nov-1984)
5 - The Eyes of the Killer Robot (Nov-1986)
6 - The Trolley to Yesterday (1989)
7 - The Chessmen of Doom (Nov-1989)
8 - The Secret of the Underground Room (Dec-1990)
9 - The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie (Aug-2004)
10 - The Hand of the Necromancer (Sep-1996)
11 - The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder (Sep-1997)
12 - The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost (Sep-1999)

Lewis Barnavelt

6 - The Doom of the Haunted Opera (Sep-1995)
The Figure in the Shadows (Jan-1975)
The Letter, the Witch and the Ring (Jan-1976)
The Ghost in the Mirror (Apr-1993)
The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder (Sep-1993)
The Specter From the Magician's Museum (Jun-1998)
The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge (Mar-2002)
The Tower at the End of the World (Aug-2003)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • The House With a Clock in Its Walls

    Lewis had always wanted to live in a house like Uncle Jonathan's -- full of marble fireplaces and secret passageways and dozens of unused, unexplored rooms. And living with Uncle Jonathan, a real wizard, was full of fun and surprises. But while Un...

  • The Figure in the Shadows

    Lewis Barnavelt

    A classic fantasy/mystery from critically acclaimed novelist John BellairsLewis thought the amulet would bring him good luck--instead, it brought nothing but evil.Lewis is sure that Grandpa Barnavelt's 1859 lucky coin is really a magic talisman in di...

  • The Letter, the Witch and the Ring

    Lewis Barnavelt

    A rich, magical gothic mystery from the legendary John BellairsRose Rita wishes she could go to camp like her bets friend, Lewis. She's sure that boys get to have all the fun.--until Mrs. Zimmermann offers her an adveture of her own. Mrs. Zimmermann'...

  • The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn

    An Anthony Monday Mystery - 1

    A young boy discovers a clue that points to an incredible treasure…When Miss Eells gives young Anthony a job at the library, he thinks he’ll just be dusting shelves and filing books. Instead, he discovers a hidden clue leading to the treasure of ...

  • The Curse of the Blue Figurine

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 1

    Johnny thought the terrible tale of Father Baart was a legend -- until it turned out to be true. JOHNNY DIXON doesn't believe that the ghost of mad Father Baart haunts the town church. But then he takes an old scroll and a seemingly harmless figur...

  • The Dark Secret of Weatherend

    An Anthony Monday Mystery - 2

    From his adventures in The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn teenager Anthony Monday returns to take on a storm of sorcery.   Anthony can always count on his friend, sixty-eight-year-old librarian Miss Eells, to break up Hoosac’s hot summer days ...

  • The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 4

    Professor Childermass has disappeared. And Johnny Dixon can find few clues: a haunted dollhouse and a lighted. menacing iack-e-lantern. The dollhouse is a miniature replica of a room in the Childermass family home -- the same room where the professor...

  • The Mummy, the Will and the Crypt

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 2

    JOHNNY’S ADVENTURE BECOMES A JOURNEY INTO TERROR For months Johnny Dixon has been working on the riddle that would reveal the hiding place of wealthy Mr. Glomus's will. A $10,000 reward is waiting for whoever finds the missing document -- mone...

  • The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 3

    Thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon, possessed by the ghost of the evil Warren Windrow, is dying. And it seems as if there is nothing anyone can do. In a desperate effort to save Johnny's life, his two best friends, Professor Childermass and Fergie, race ...



  • The Eyes of the Killer Robot

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 5

    Will thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon suffer the same fate Evaristus Sloane's robot can only be activated by human eves, and the maniacal wizard has selected Johnny as the donor. When Johnny is kidnapped, Professor Childermass and Fergie race to Sloane...

  • The Face in the Frost

    A quirky fantasy classic by “a writer who knows what wizardry is all about” (Ursula K. Le Guin).
     
    A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a ho...

  • The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb

    An Anthony Monday Mystery - 3

    A murderous surprise comes to light in this thrilling mystery featuring teenager Anthony Monday, from the author of The Dark Secret of Weatherend.   Ever since librarian Myra Eells bought an antique oil lamp, weird things have started to happen ...

  • The Trolley to Yesterday

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 6

    TIME TRAVELLERS Why is Professor Childermass acting so strange? Johnny Dixon and his friend Fergie decide to sneak over to the professor's house to investigate. What they find is wilder than anything they could have imagined, for the professor leads...

  • The Chessmen of Doom

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 7

    Why a dead eye in a room with no view? Why pallid dwarves on a board that's not true? To pull the hairy stars from their nest And give sinful humans a well-deserved test. If you solve this riddle you may wish you hadn't. Peregrine P. Childermass Upo...

  • The Secret of the Underground Room

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 8

    A young hero and his professor friend set out to save a priest from a ghost, in this novel by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls
     
    Aside from the eccentric Professor Childermass, young sleuth Johnny Dixon’...

  • The Ghost in the Mirror

    Lewis Barnavelt

    It was a warm summer day in 1951 when Rose Pottinger and Mrs. Zimmermann entered the tunnel. When they had emerged, it was snowing...and the year was 1828. Mrs. Zimmermann had felt that the ghost of Granny Wetherbee, who had taught Mrs. Zimmerma...

  • The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder

    Lewis Barnavelt

    Something evil has taken over… Lewis Barnavelt and his uncle are in England, visiting a cousin at Barnavelt Manor. Lewis quickly becomes friends with the housekeeper’s son, and as the two boys explore a garden maze, Lewis accidentally unleas...

  • The Doom of the Haunted Opera

    Lewis Barnavelt - 6

    Two kids find a haunted opera score capable of raising the dead! When Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger explore an abandoned theater, they discover an unpublished opera score entitled “The Day of Doom”. Ignoring a strange omen, they sh...

  • The Hand of the Necromancer

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 10

    In a Massachusetts town, an evil wizard is about to come back from the dead and a young hero must fight to stop him . . .
     
    In the days of the Salem witch trials, the sleepy hamlet of Duston Heights had just one...



  • The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 11

    Hidden away in the local library, a sorcerer’s book casts an evil spell in a novel by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls
     
    Johnny Dixon and his best friend Fergie are whiling away a rainy day at the Duston...

  • The Specter From the Magician's Museum

    Lewis Barnavelt

    Based on John Bellairs' mystery-adventure series, this thrilling story will keep you on the edge of your seat!John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, yo...

  • The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 12

    A young man fights to save his father from a spirit’s curse in the epic finale to a series starring “a terrific hero” (The New York Times)
     
    The sea is calm, the air is fresh, and the bobbing boat feels like ...

  • The Pedant and the Shuffly

    The evil magician Snodrog ensnares his victims with his inescapable logic and transforms them into Flimsies (stained handkerchiefs)...until the kindly sorcerer, Sir Bertram Crabtree-Gore (Esq.) enlists the help of a magical Shuffly (Latin name: Scuff...

  • The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge

    Lewis Barnavelt

    What is it about the old Wilder Creek Bridge that makes Lewis Barnavelt so curious-and so afraid? When Lewis and his best friend Rose Rita Pottinger set out to explore the bridge and the deserted farm nearby, they discover shocking secrets -- and a h...

  • The Tower at the End of the World

    Lewis Barnavelt

    After encountering the Ishmael Izard and hearing of his plans to destroy the world, Lewis, his uncle Jonathan, and their friends consider the threat serious and so, despite their own fears, quickly devise a plan to stop his evil plot. Reprint....

  • The Whistle, the Grave and the Ghost

    In the woods near his home in Michigan, thirteen-year-old Lewis Barnavelt stumbles upon an ancient grave and silver whistle that draw him, his best friend Rose Rita Pottinger, his uncle Jonathan, and their friend Mrs. Zimmermann into a battle with an...

  • The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie

    A Johnny Dixon Mystery - 9

    John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: L...

  • The Mansion in the Mist

    An Anthony Monday Mystery

    Anthony Monday takes a vacation to another world in this mind-blowing mystery from the author of The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb.   Summer is here and Anthony Monday has been asked to join his friend Miss Eells and her brother Emerson on a va...

  • Best of John Bellairs



  • Magic Mirrors

    Magic Mirrors is a collection of the adult fantasy and humorous works of John Bellairs. This collection includes The Face in the Frost, The Dolphin Cross (a previously unpublished fragment sequel to The Face in the Frost), The Pedant and the Shuffly,...

  • The Gargoyle in the Dump

    From the award-winning author of The Face in the Frost comes the story of three brothers who rescue a talking gargoyle from their neighborhood junkyard Michael, David, and Alphonsus Jr. (aka Fonsy) are spending the summer trying to blow up ...

  • The Spectre from the Magician's Museum

    Lewis and Rose Rita have to participate in a talent show whether they like it or not. When they come up with the idea of doing a fake magic show, they decide to borrow some books on stage magic from a friend who works at a museum. After Rose Rita cut...

  • The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer

  • The House Where Nobody Lived

    As Lewis and Rose Rita investigate all the supernatural happenings in New Zebedee, they get more than they bargained for when a new family moves into the Hawaii House. Lewis and Rose Rita are soon drawn into a mystery involving forces far beyond the ...

Award-Winning Books by John Bellairs

The Curse of the Blue Figurine
1987 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- Middle School


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Bellairs has published 34 books.

John Bellairs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The House Where Nobody Lived, was published in August 2021.

The first book by John Bellairs, The House With a Clock in Its Walls, was published in January 1973.

Yes. John Bellairs has 3 series.
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