Yeah, guys - it was just a joke!

I really thought the hedgehog was going to fly past the screen on a string. Disappointed me, but probably better for the hedgehog.

I thought the next book, The Figure in the Shadows, was even scarier! I also loved his Johnny Dixon and Anthony Monday series.

I remember getting so scared reading this book, I slammed it shut and was convinced I was going crazy from reading it. So amazing....Imma read it again but until today, I couldn't remember the title. Thanks:)

Everything by John Bellairs. And Harriet the Spy and Wrinkle in Time also, and everything by Frank Herbert. And everything with words.

"When I was a kid, I read everything I could get my hands on, twice." - Preach!

The whole series.

I was obsessed with John Bellairs!

And most everything else by Judy Blume.

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler

The Mummy, The Will and The Crypt, by John Bellairs (1983). Start of a series of seriously terrifying (for a 10 year old, as I was when I discovered the series ... he kept writing into the late 1990s) quasi Gothic horror books. They're delightfully scary, have a plucky young orphan and his mentor as heroes, and are…

Tofu is not amused.

Someone's trying to swag jack JT...