The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb

Name: The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb
Author: John Bellairs
ISBN: 9780141300771

by John Bellairs

168 pages1999Puffin BooksISBN 9780141300771

Fiction Children's Horror Mystery Fantasy

About this book

The light of evil is shining on Anthony Monday.ANTHONY MONDAY COULDN'T SEE WHY MISS EELLS was so excited about the lamp she had bought; it was just an oil lamp with pictures painted on the base. Little did the two of them know that it was stolen from the underground tomb of Willis Nightwood, a dabbler in the occult and black arts. When Anthony lights the lamp, monstrous forces are unleashed -- forces bent on destroying the world. Can Anthony and Miss Eells stop this satanic power before it destroys the world?

Publication Details

Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1999
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780141300771
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>)