The Hand of the Necromancer (Johnny Dixon) - Softcover

Strickland, Brad; Gorey, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140386955 ISBN 13: 9780140386950

Publisher: Puffin, 1998

Synopsis

When Mattheus Mergal attempts to get his hands on a piece of an artifact in order to raise the dead, Professor Childermass and his student, Johnny, must do all they can to prevent it from happening. Reprint.

About this title

From the Author:

The first Johnny Dixon by Brad Strickland.
Hi! Brad Strickland here. This is the first Johnny Dixon not based on a plot outline by John Bellairs--it uses John's characters and settings, but the plot is mine this time. Johnny has a new friend in it, Sarah Channing; before his untimely death, John Bellairs had discussed adding a girl to the series, and here she is. Otherwise, I've tried very hard to be true to John's vision of his characters and to maintain his special blend of the spooky and the humorous. I hope you enjoy it!

About the Author:

John Bellairs is beloved as a master of Gothic young adult novels and fantasies. His series about the adventures of Lewis Barnavelt and his uncle Jonathan, which includes The House with a Clock in Its Walls, is a classic. He also wrote a series of novels featuring the character Johnny Dixon. Among the titles in that series are The Curse of the Blue Figurine; The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt; and The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull. His stand-alone novel The Face in the Frost is also regarded as a fantasy classic, and among his earlier works are St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies and The Pedant and the Shuffly.

Bellairs was a prolific writer, publishing more than a dozen novels before his untimely death in 1991.
 Brad Strickland has written and cowritten forty-one novels, many of them for younger readers. He is the author of the fantasy trilogy Moon Dreams, Nul’s Quest, and Wizard’s Mole, and the creator of the popular horror novel Shadowshow. With his wife, Barbara, he has written for the Star Trek Young Adult book series, for Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? book series, and for Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (Pocket Books). Both solo and with Thomas E. Fuller, he has written several books about Wishbone, public TV’s literature-loving dog. When he's not writing, he teaches English at Gainesville College in Gainesville, Georgia. He and Barbara have two children, Amy and Jonathan, and a daughter-in-law, Rebecca. They live and work in Oakwood, Georgia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140386955
• ISBN 13: 9780140386950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176