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Title: The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs, Mercer Mayer ISBN: 0-14-036337-8 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.93 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best Horror books ever
Comment: I read this book in the 70s or early 80s. I was so frightened by it that I stored it under my sister's bed at night just to keep it out of my room and away from me. It scared me that much - It's very vivid. To this day, the smell of wet ashes reminds me of the book. I mean this all in the best way, of course. I was, perhaps, a little unprepared for the depth of spookiness found in this book, but now I realize that while it frightened the living daylights out of me, it also thrilled me. I credit this book and MacBeth (also read when far too young and impressionable) for my love of "unseen" psychological horror fiction today. Definitely talk with your child after they read this, though. You don't want them spooking at every imagined figure in the shadows.
Rating: 5
Summary: This story will stay with you.
Comment: I read this book 25 years ago, when I was 9. Since then, I have read thousands of books, but I remember this story, almost by heart. I did not know it was a series. I am going to buy everything by Bellairs, to read myself, and for my son, who will soon be old enough for this. I recommend this book heartily. Bellairs is quite the equal of Rowling. If Stephen King wrote youth horror, his charactorization and style would be close to this.
Rating: 5
Summary: enthralling, but with an inconsistency
Comment: ... there is one plot inconsistency: Lewis receives the mysterious Latin message from the evil figure *before* he has read the incantation to invoke him!
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Title: The House With a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs, Edward Gorey ISBN: 014036336X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring by John Bellairs, Richard Egielski, Richard Engielski ISBN: 0140363386 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Ghost in the Mirror by John Bellairs, Brad Strickland, Edward Gorey ISBN: 0140349340 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs ISBN: 0140380051 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt by John Bellairs, Edward Gorey, Dena Wallenstein Neusner ISBN: 0140380078 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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