Bellairs, John

While spending the summer in an old house on a desolate Canadian island, Anthony Monday and Miss Eells discover a chest that can transport them to another world and a maniacal group who are plotting the destruction of people on Earth.

A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

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.

When thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass try to uncover what is draining the life from the elderly Dr. Coote, they find themselves facing the forces of a manacing voodoo cult.

A painfully overweight sixth grade boy receives a magic amulet which brings him luck, but also terrifying side effects.

Johnny Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he removes a blue figurine called a ushabt. from church.

Following clues in a mysterious deathbed letter, Rose Rita and a friendly witch, Mrs. Zimmerman, are lured into the sinister world of the occult.

A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

A painfully overweight sixth-grade boy receives a magic amulet which brings him luck, but also terrifying side effects.