The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

Name: The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Author: John Bellairs
ISBN: 9780553157260

by John Bellairs

3.5

(4 ratings)

170 pages1985SkylarkISBN 9780553157260

Fiction Children's Mystery Young Adult

About this book

When Johnny Dixon takes a tiny skull from a haunted dollhouse, demonic forces are released,capturing Professor Childermass and leading Johnny on a harrowing chase to a deserted island off the coast of Maine.

Publication Details

Publisher: Skylark
Published: 1985
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9780553157260
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>)