Vengeance of the Witch-Finder

Name: Vengeance of the Witch-Finder
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780803714519

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153 pages1993Penguin Publishing GroupISBN 9780803714519

Fiction Children's

About this book

In 1951, while visiting a distant cousin in the English countryside, thirteen-year-old Lewis Barnavelt accidentally unleashes demonic forces and summons the ghost of an evil wizard bent on killing the Barnavelt family. ---------- ###German-language description: Ein neues Abenteuer aus der erfolgreichen »Luis-Barnavelt«-Reihe - Dieser Band wurde fortgeführt vom Autor Brad Strickland - Luis reist mit seinem Onkel Jonathan in den Sommerferien durch Europa. Sie besuchen auch den alten Herrensitz ihrer Familie in Sussex, Barnavelt Manor. Das unheimliche alte Herrenhaus birgt ein Geheimnis: Im schloßeigenen Irrgarten befreit Luis versehentlich den uralten Geist eines Vorfahren, eines bösartigen Hexenjägers. Er bringt damit die gesamte Barnavelt-FamiIie in Gefahr, denn der wütende Geist sinnt auf Rache!

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 1993
Pages: 153
ISBN: 9780803714519
Language: en

About Unknown Author

<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>)