Monday, January 23, 2006

The Day of Gloom

Lewis and Rose Rita battle a magician and musician in The Doom of the Haunted Opera as they try to make sense of the score entitled, The Day of Doom.  It sounded dreadful and unworthy of a sequel, but someone has now, all these years later, come up with something that sounds like a follow-up.

Sunday, January 1, 2006

Researching the Phoenix

We want to learn more about John Bellairs’s contributions to the Phoenix, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based weekly newspaper. It’s a long shot, we know, being almost 40 years after the fact, but that hasn’t stopped us before - and we've found answers before, too.

Here is what we know: