From what I remember about The House, I do think I prefer that book to this one, but I think if I reread The House I might have a similar opinion of it as I do The Curse of the Blue Figurine. I had to settle for The Curse of the Blue Figurine, which I’d read when I was a child (along with most of Bellairs’ other works). Rating: 2/5 The first book I ever read by John Bellairs was The House with a Clock in its Walls, which I tried to find at my library but, sadly, they didn’t have. And when Johnny unthinkingly returns there and accepts a magic ring from a mysterious stranger, he is plunged into a terrifying adventure-realizing too late that the tale of Father Baart is not just a legend, but the horrifying truth. On a bleak and stormy night his friend Professor Childermass relates the tale of mad Father Baart, whose ghost is said to haunt the church. Little does Johnny Dixon know when he takes a scroll inscribed with these words-along with a seemingly harmless figurine-from the town church that his life will be changed forever. Whoever removes these things from the church does so at his own peril….Vengeance is mine I will repay, saith the lord. The Curse of the Blue Figurine, by John Bellairs, was published in 1983 by Dial Books.
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