He also wrote a series of novels featuring the character Johnny Dixon. 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. John Bellairs is beloved as a master of Gothic young adult novels and fantasies. This eleventh book in the Johnny Dixon series will hold readers spellbound until the final page. Can Johnny and the professor break Fergie's deepening trance in time to stop Thanatos and his dangerous march toward maniacal immortality? Soon, Fergie is under the control of Thanatos, a mad sorcerer who has been putting children under his spell for the past three hundred years. What he finds past the last set of shelves is a battered black cover with the Dewey decimal number 99.99S and a title as red as blood-The Book of True Wishes by Jarmyn Thanatos.Įven though Fergie is a good kid, he steals the book, setting off a chain of sinister events that threaten not only his life but the lives of his friends Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass as well. One dark, drippy day, when Byron "Fergie" Ferguson gets bored, he wonders what the last book in the library is.
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