is the critically acclaimed, best-selling author of many Gothic novels, The Curse of the Blue Figurine; The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt; The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb; The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull; The Revenge of the Wizard’s Ghost; The Chessmen of Doom; The Eyes of the Killer Robot; and the previous novels starring Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, and Mrs. Zimmermann: The House with a Clock in Its Walls; The Figure in the Shadows; and The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring.
John Bellairs died in 1991. However there are several more books that Mr. Bellairs left that Dial will be publishing. Brad Strickland, a longtime Bellairs fan, will be completing them, just as he did The Ghost in the Mirror.