I'm glad there's a community for John Bellairs. I almost created one once, but after I had everything figured out and the layout all done, I realized it couldn't be used as a community because I accidentally created it as a regular journal. (Right?)
I'm a huge fan of the Lewis Barnavelt mysteries. The town of New Zebedee is modeled after Bellairs' hometown of Marshall, Michigan. I live not twenty minutes away from just about all of the New Zebedee locations in the Lewis Barnavelt series. (I live in "Capharnaum County," even.)
One day I was in an antique shop in Marshall, and I found a 1955 edition of the Marshall High School yearbook. Turns out that 1955 was the year John Bellairs graduated, and his picture was right there. He had even made an inscription to the book's owner, Ann Hitchens. (Her father ran Hitchens' Drugstore in Marshall, which was a favorite hangout of Bellairs and his high school pals.)
Here's a poll, just for fun...
Poll #419806 Lewis Barnavelt Series
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Which is your favorite book of the Lewis Barnavelt series?
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