The Secret of the Underground Room

Name: The Secret of the Underground Room
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: John Bellairs
ISBN: 9780140349320

by John Bellairs

5.0

(2 ratings)

127 pages1992Puffin BooksISBN 9780140349320

Mystery Fiction

About this book

Professor Childermass is stunned when Father Higgins claims that a ghost is trying to contact him. Then the priest disappears. When the professor and Johnny catch up to him, they make a terrifying discovery -- Father Higgins is possessed by Masterman, the spirit of a long-dead knight determined to rule the world. And it looks as if Masterman is going to get his way. "Has enough chills to satisfy readers not quite ready for Stephen King."-- "School Library Journal"

Publication Details

Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1992
Pages: 127
ISBN: 9780140349320
Language: en

About John Bellairs

<a href="http://bellairsia.com">John Bellairs</a> (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href="http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>. After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/John_Bellairs">Shimer College Wiki</a>)