![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s protagonist, Lewis Barnavelt, along with his Uncle Jonathan, can hear the clock ticking all throughout their house, but they cannot find it. For one thing, it’s about a house with a goddamned clock in its walls! And not just any clock, but a doomsday clock that, when it goes off, will bring about the end of the world. THwaCiIW is a Gothic horror novel for kids, and it’s genuinely spooky.And it’s only appropriate that Rebekah should have given me a horror novel, because my nickname for her is “Ghost Mouth.” (Thanks, Ghost Mouth!) I got my current copy of THwaCiIW from my friend Rebekah, last November, at her Friendsgiving party.And it’s through these novels, I think, that I first learned about Edward Gorey. Actually, I first read John Bellairs’s novel The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (1978), which I picked it up because of its Gorey cover and illustrations. I first read this novel when I was a kid, checking it out from the library. ![]()
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