{"id":11058,"date":"2018-02-04T19:37:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T23:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2018-02-04T19:37:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T23:37:32","slug":"pay-tribute-john-bellairs-mackerel-snapping-master-moppet-macabre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2018\/02\/pay-tribute-john-bellairs-mackerel-snapping-master-moppet-macabre.html","title":{"rendered":"I Pay Tribute to John Bellairs, The Mackerel-Snapping Master of Moppet Macabre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

at the University Bookman:<\/p>\n

Children fell in love with the tales of John Bellairs (1938\u20131991) because they perfectly combined creepy and cozy: the laughing skeleton, curled up by the fire with a mug of cider. In novels like The Curse of the Blue Figurine<\/a><\/em> and The Dark Secret of Weatherend<\/a><\/em> Bellairs confronted his child heroes with cruel wizards and apocalyptic prophecies, terrible dreams and grim temptations\u2014often illustrated by Edward Gorey, the other master of elementary-school macabre. Bellairs and Gorey both cherish old houses, weird objects, and the friendships that form among oddballs and outsiders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a>. Bellairs did at times fall into the danger of making the faith a superstition. But our own age is much more prone to the opposite temptation, of making the faith an ideology.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

at the University Bookman: Children fell in love with the tales of John Bellairs (1938\u20131991) because they perfectly combined creepy and cozy: the laughing skeleton, curled up by the fire with a mug of cider. 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