![]() ![]() In 1994, Brad Strickland completed The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie - as well as three Lewis Barnavelt books - from notes Bellairs had compiled prior to his death. ![]() The series expanded in its subsequent years to include a stalwart secondary cast of Byron “Fergie” Ferguson, Professor Charles Coote, Sarah Channing, and Father Thomas Higgins, through which Bellairs injected a number of Catholic rites and remembrances into the novels. ![]() The two series are also alike in that they each have supernatural overtones, unlike the initial outing in the Anthony Monday series.īellairs spent a majority of his writing career documenting the adventures of Johnny and his elderly friend, Professor Roderick Childermass, churning out eight novels in a seven year period, including The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull and the time-traveling jaunt, The Trolley to Yesterday. The difference here is that Johnny’s mother is dead of cancer and his father is overseas in the Korean War. Similar to his Lewis Barnavelt series from the previous decade, the Dixon series introduced readers to a timid, young hero who has been forcibly moved from his comfort zone into a new environment. ![]() 2.2 By John Bellairs, Completed by Brad Strickland. ![]()
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