Contains "The Curse of the Blue Figurine", "The Mummy, The Will, And the Crypt", "The Dark Secret of Weatherend", and "The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull".
John Bellairs (1938–1991) was an American novelist. He is best known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls (1973) and the fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He later lived and wrote in Massachusetts.