He and Barbara have two children, Amy and Jonathan, and a daughter-in-law, Rebecca. When he's not writing, he teaches English at Gainesville College in Gainesville, Georgia.

Fuller, he has written several books about Wishbone, public TV's literature-loving dog. With his wife, Barbara, he has written for the Star Trek Young Adult book series, for Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? book series, and for Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (Pocket Books).

He is the author of the fantasy trilogy Moon Dreams, Nul's Quest, and Wizard's Mole, and the creator of the popular horror novel Shadowshow. Brad Strickland has written and cowritten forty-one novels, many of them for younger readers. Bellairs was a prolific writer, publishing more than one dozen novels before his untimely death in 1991. Fidgeta and Other Parodies and The Pedant and the Shuffly. His solo novel The Face in the Frost is also regarded as a fantasy classic, and among his earlier works are St. Among the titles in that series are The Curse of the Blue Figurine The Mummy, The Will, and The Crypt The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull and others. He also wrote a series of novels featuring the character Johnny Dixon. His series about the adventures of Lewis Barnavelt and his uncle Jonathan, which includes The House with a Clock in Its Walls, is a classic. John Bellairs is beloved as a master of Gothic young adult novels and fantasies. Coote? Will they make it out alive? This ninth book in the Johnny Dixon series was completed by Brad Strickland after John Bellairs died, and it has all the spooky thrills that make these mysteries classics. Spells, zombies, and voodoo demons beset our heroes and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Suddenly, Johnny and Fergie and the professor find themselves battling the imposing Madame Sinestra, a voodoo priestess who seeks the magical drum for her evil Caribbean cult. Coote's worries about the drum very seriously, until Fergie taps it a few times and releases an unspeakable evil. It's made entirely of black wood with red leather straps and small, white bones. Charles Coote-a noted folklorist and old friend of Professor Childermass-returns from a conference in New Orleans, he brings home a small, sinister drum.

Shadowshow by Brad Strickland