![]() Bellairs’ collaborator on The House With A Clock In Its Walls-his first novel for kids and the source material of Eli Roth’s new film adaptation-was illustrator Edward Gorey, who continued to illustrate his books until the author’s death in 1991. Of course, he had some help in that department. They were stories that implied far more than they revealed, leaving the business of conjuring up specific nightmares as much to the imagination of the reader as to his effective but often reserved prose. These mystical scenarios were then to be investigated and solved by a plucky young boy, usually aided by a substitute parental figure or two. Through nearly all of his 15 YA novels, the author installed regal cemeteries, ornate mansions, ancient tomes, and unnatural mist, all in service of eerie supernatural goings-on. ![]() ![]() ![]() The young-adult books of John Bellairs were, above all else, a way for the late author to indulge in his fondness for gothic mystery. ![]()
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