This book is part of a book series called John Bellairs Mysteries .

This book was published by Puffin Books .

John Ciardi served as poetry editor of The Saturday Review , director of Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and translator of the The Divine Comedy . He died on Easter Sunday, 1986. Edward Gorey 's Gothic vision has won him a loyal following. His own titles include The Hapless Child , The Glorious Nosebleed , and The Prune People . The late Thomas E. Fuller is the author, with Brad Strickland, of Aladdin's Pirate Hunter trilogy. Bellairs was a prolific writer, publishing more than a dozen novels before his untimely death in 1991.