Editing John Bellairs

{{Short description|American fantasy novelist (1938–1991)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| birth_name = John Anthony Bellairs
| name = John Bellairs
| image = John Anthony Bellairs.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|1|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Marshall, Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|3|8|1938|1|17|mf=y}}
| death_place = [[Haverhill, Massachusetts]], US
| education = [[University of Notre Dame]] (BA)<br> [[University of Chicago]] (MA)
| occupation = [[Novelist]]
| period = 1966–1991
| genre = [[Fantasy]], [[Horror fiction|horror]], [[humor]]
| website = <!-- official only -->
| notable_works = <em>[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]</em>, <em>[[The Face in the Frost]]</em>
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'''John Anthony Bellairs''' (January 17, 1938 – March 8, 1991)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Olendorf|first=Donna|url=https://archive.org/details/somethingaboutau00donn_1|title=Something About the Author|publisher=Gale Research|year=1992|isbn=978-0-8103-2278-3|location=Detroit|pages=23–25|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> was an [[Americans|American]] author best known for his [[fantasy]] novel ''[[The Face in the Frost]]'' and many [[gothic novel|Gothic]] [[Mystery fiction|mystery]] novels for [[Children's literature|children]] featuring the characters [[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]], [[Rose Rita Pottinger]], [[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]], and [[Anthony Monday (series)|Anthony Monday]]. Most of his books were illustrated by [[Edward Gorey]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Domino|first=Matt|date=2017-05-12|title=Why the Link Between Edward Gorey and John Bellairs Remains Unbreakable|url=https://themillions.com/2017/05/why-the-link-between-edward-gorey-and-john-bellairs-remains-unbreakable.html|access-date=2021-08-29|website=The Millions|language=en-US}}</ref> At the time of his death, Bellairs' books had sold a quarter-million copies in hard cover and more than a million and a half copies in paperback.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|last=Stasio|first=Marilyn|date=1991-06-09|title=CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Under the Spell Of Scary Stuff|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/09/books/children-s-books-under-the-spell-of-scary-stuff.html|access-date=2021-09-05|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:Jeremiah Cronin House Marshall.jpg|thumb|Front view of the Cronin House in Marshall, Michigan, which inspired ''The House with a Clock in Its Walls'']]

=== Early life and education ===
Bellairs was born in [[Marshall, Michigan]], the son of Virginia (Monk) and Frank Edward Bellairs, who ran a cigar store and bowling alley in Marshall.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L25ycEzuXxIC&q=%22Frank+Edward+Bellairs+and+Virginia+Monk%22&pg=PA814|title = Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2|isbn = 9780941028776|last1 = Reginald|first1 = R.|date = September 2010| publisher=Wildside Press LLC }}</ref> He was raised a strict Roman Catholic and initially planned to become a priest.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Beal |first=Darlene |title=John Bellairs Keeps Stories 'Real' |url=http://archive.org/details/observer1988nort |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=The Observer |publisher=[[Northern Essex Community College]] |pages=6 |volume=39 |issue=7}}</ref> His hometown inspired the fictional town of New Zebedee, Michigan, where he set his trilogy about Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger.<ref>{{Cite book|last=MacNee|first=Marie J.|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810398665|title=Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers|publisher=Gale Research|year=1995|isbn=0810398664|volume=1|location=New York|pages=49–52}}</ref> Shy, overweight, and often bullied as a child, he had become a voracious reader and a self-described "bottomless pit of useless information" by the time he graduated from [[Marshall High School (Michigan)|Marshall High School]]<ref name=":7" /> and entered the [[University of Notre Dame]] in 1955.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|last=Dunne|first=Patrick|date=2011|title=John Bellairs: Author of the Imaginary|url=https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/john-bellairs-author-of-the-imaginary/|access-date=2021-09-05|website=Notre Dame Magazine|language=en}}</ref>

Bellairs graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English ''magna cum laude'' from the University of Notre Dame in 1959.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1991-03-14|title=John A. Bellairs, 53, A Children's Author|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/14/obituaries/john-a-bellairs-53-a-children-s-author.html|access-date=2021-08-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> At Notre Dame, he competed in the [[College Bowl]] and wrote a regular humor column for the student magazine ''[[Scholastic (Notre Dame publication)|Scholastic]]''.<ref name=":8" /> Bellairs went on to receive a Master of Arts degree in English from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1960. He received a [[The Institute for Citizens & Scholars|Woodrow Wilson Fellowship]] in 1959.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1959-03-15|title=Press release|url=https://archives.nd.edu/pr/pdf/PR_1959_03.pdf|access-date=2021-08-28|website=University of Notre Dame}}</ref>

=== Career and interests ===
Bellairs taught English at the [[College of Saint Teresa]] (1963–65), [[Shimer College]] (1966–67), [[Emmanuel College (Massachusetts)|Emmanuel College]] (1968–69), and [[Merrimack College]] (1969–71) before turning full-time to writing in 1971. During the late 1960s, he spent six months living and writing in [[Bristol]], [[United Kingdom]], where he began writing ''[[The Face in the Frost]]''. Bristol would later feature in his 1990 novel ''The Secret of the Underground Room''.

His personal interests included archaeology, architecture, history, Latin, baseball, kitschy antiques, bad poetry, visits to the UK, and trivia of all kinds.<ref name=":0" /> His favorite authors included [[Charles Dickens]], [[Henry James]], [[M.R. James]], [[Garrett Mattingly]], and [[C. V. Wedgwood]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=John Bellairs|url=https://lookingglassreview.com/html/profile_17.html|access-date=2021-08-29|website=lookingglassreview.com}}</ref>

Alongside [[Christopher Tolkien]], Bellairs was a guest of honor at the 18th Annual Mythopoeic Conference at [[Marquette University]] in 1987, hosted by the [[Mythopoeic Society]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hyde|first=Paul|date=1986-10-15|title=Quenti Lambardillion|url=https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol13/iss1/6|journal=Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature|volume=13|issue=1|page=33|issn=0146-9339}}</ref>

=== Death and legacy ===
Bellairs died suddenly of [[cardiovascular disease]] at his home in [[Haverhill, Massachusetts]], on March 8, 1991, at the age of 53.<ref>{{Cite news |last=The Associated Press |author-link=The Associated Press |date=1991-03-14 |title=Obituary for John Bellairs |pages=92 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-obituary-for-john-bellairs/137871287/ |access-date=2024-01-02}}</ref> He was survived by his ex-wife, Priscilla (Braids) Bellairs, whom he had married on June 24, 1968, and their son Frank J. Bellairs.<ref name=":0" /> Frank Bellairs died in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], on August 19, 1999, at the age of 29.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1999-08-22 |title=Obituary for Frank J. Bellairs |pages=84 |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-obituary-for-frank-j-b/137871524/ |access-date=2024-01-02}}</ref> Priscilla Bellairs lives in [[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Shea|first=Jack|date=2018-04-18|title=Newburyport woman gets glimpse at film on late husband's book|url=https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/newburyport-woman-gets-glimpse-at-film-on-late-husbands-book/article_da390afe-6e83-5f18-a583-493bad6c982a.html|access-date=2021-08-29|website=The Daily News of Newburyport|language=en}}</ref>

In 1992, a historical marker was placed in front of the historic Cronin House in Bellairs's hometown of Marshall, Michigan.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hahn |first=Daniel |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921452204 |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-174437-2 |edition=2nd |pages=62 |oclc=921452204 }}</ref> Built in 1870 for local merchant Jeremiah Cronin, this imposing Italianate mansion with its 60-foot tower had inspired the titular house of his 1973 [[The House with a Clock in Its Walls|book]].<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|last=Hall|first=Kalea|date=2018-09-18|title=The House that Inspired 'House with a Clock in Its Walls' Comes to Life in Time for Movie|url=https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2018/09/18/house-clock-its-walls-cronin-marshall/1303778002/|access-date=2021-09-09|website=Battle Creek Enquirer|language=en-US}}</ref>

Bellairs was inducted into the Haverhill Citizens Hall of Fame in 2000.<ref name=":1" />

== Writings ==

=== Books for adults ===
Bellairs' first published work, ''[[St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies]]'' (1966), is a collection of short stories satirizing the rites and rituals of [[Second Vatican Council]]-era [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]]. The title story of St. Fidgeta grew out of humorous stories Bellairs made up and shared with friends while living in [[Chicago]]. After committing one such story to paper, he sent it to the Chicago-based Catholic magazine ''The Critic'', which published the story in summer 1965. The following year, the [[hagiography]] of St. Fidgeta was supplemented by eleven other humorous stories, including an essay on lesser-known [[pope]]s of antiquity, a cathedral constructed over the course of centuries, and a spoof letter from a modern-day [[Francis X. Murphy|Xavier Rynne]] about the escapades at the fictional Third Vatican Council. ''Library Journal'' hailed ''St. Fidgeta'' as "religious burlesque" that delivered "strokes of inspired foolishness." A writer for the ''[[National Catholic Reporter]]'' called it a "gem."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Washburn|first=Susanne|date=2004-10-29|title=The marvelous St. Fidgeta: Tales of a 7-year-old martyr are a gem of religious burlesque|journal=National Catholic Reporter|pages=16–17}}</ref>

''The Pedant and the Shuffly'', his second book, is a short illustrated fable featuring the evil magician Snodrog (the titular pedant), who ensnares his victims with inescapable (and nonsensical) logic until the kindly sorcerer, Sir Bertram Crabtree-Gore, enlists the help of a magical Shuffly to defeat Snodrog. The book was originally published in 1968 and rereleased in 2001<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Press, The Pedant and the Shuffly|url=http://www.mythsoc.org/press/pedant-and-shuffly.htm|access-date=2021-08-31|website=www.mythsoc.org}}</ref> and 2009.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Magic Mirrors – NESFA|url=https://www.nesfa.org/book/magic-mirrors/|access-date=2021-08-31|language=en-US}}</ref>

Bellairs undertook his third book, ''[[The Face in the Frost]]'' (1969), while living in Britain and after reading [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. Bellairs said of his third book: <blockquote>"''The Face in the Frost'' was an attempt to write in the Tolkien manner. I was much taken by ''The Lord of the Rings'' and wanted to do a modest work on those lines. In reading the latter book I was struck by the fact that [[Gandalf]] was not much of a person—just a good guy. So I gave Prospero, my wizard, most of my phobias and crotchets. It was simply meant as entertainment and any profundity will have to be read in."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Commire|first=Anne|url=https://archive.org/details/somethingaboutau02comm|title=Something About the Author|publisher=Gale Research|year=1971|isbn=978-0-8103-0052-1|volume=2|location=Detroit|pages=20|via=Internet Archive}}</ref></blockquote> Writing in 1973, [[Lin Carter]] described ''The Face in the Frost'' as one of the three best fantasy novels to appear since ''The Lord of the Rings''. Carter stated that Bellairs was planning a sequel to ''The Face in the Frost'' at the time.<ref>Lin Carter, ''Imaginary Worlds''. New York: Ballantine/Random House, 1973, pp. 1165-67 (Cites Carter's correspondence with Bellairs).</ref> An unfinished sequel titled ''The Dolphin Cross'' was included in the anthology ''Magic Mirrors'' ([[NESFA Press|New England Science Fiction Association Press]], 2009).<ref name=":3" />

=== Books for children ===
Bellairs's next novel was originally written as a contemporary adult fantasy. To improve the novel's marketability, his publisher suggested rewriting it as a young readers' book. The result was ''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]'' (1973), which was named as one of ''[[The New York Times]]'' Outstanding Books of 1973 and nominated for other awards.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Heinecken |first=Dawn |date=2011 |title=Haunting Masculinity and Frightening Femininity: The Novels of John Bellairs |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-010-9127-7 |journal=[[Children's Literature in Education]] |language=en |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=118–131 |doi=10.1007/s10583-010-9127-7 |issn=1573-1693 |s2cid=144558619|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Following the success of ''The House with a Clock in Its Walls'', Bellairs focused on writing Gothic fantasy adventures aimed at elementary and middle-school children.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/childrensliterat37hedb|title=Children's Literature Review|publisher=Gale Research|year=1996|isbn=0810389517|editor-last=Hedblad|editor-first=Alan|location=New York|pages=1–29|chapter=John Bellairs|issn=0362-4145|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> "I write scary thrillers for kids because I have the imagination of a 10-year-old," remarked Bellairs. "I love haunted houses, ghosts, witches, mummies, incantations, secret rituals performed by the light of the waning moon, coffins, bones, cemeteries and enchanted objects."<ref name=":4" /> Bellairs also wrote his hometown influenced his creative bent: “In my imagination I repeatedly walk up and down the streets of the beautiful old Michigan town where I grew up. It’s full of old Victorian mansions and history, and it would work on the creative mind of any kid.”<ref name=":7" />

Writing for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Marilyn Stasio]] characterized Bellairs' children's books as fast-paced, spooky adventures involving "believable and likeable" characters, generally a child and an older person (usually a "lovable eccentric")<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|last=Gardner|first=Craig Shaw|date=1984-11-11|title=Reading on the Edge of Your Seat|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/11/11/reading-on-the-edge-of-your-seat|access-date=2021-09-08}}</ref> who are friends and must go on adventures and solve a mystery involving supernatural elements such as ghosts and wicked sorcerers. Beyond these supernatural elements, Bellairs's novels evoked "a child's concern with comfort and security in his ''real'' world," addressing childhood fears of abandonment, loneliness, and bullying, as well as coming of age.<ref name=":4" /> His stories are described as spooky but ultimately reassuring as the characters conquer evil through friendship.<ref name=":6" />

The books have proved especially popular among [[Middle school|middle-grade]] readers between the ages of 9 and 13 but also have significant young adult and adult readerships.<ref name=":4" />

===Posthumous sequels===

On his death in 1991, Bellairs left behind two unfinished manuscripts and two one-page synopses for future adventures. The Bellairs estate commissioned [[Brad Strickland]] to complete the two unfinished manuscripts and to write novels based on the two one-page outlines. These became ''The Ghost in the Mirror''; ''The Vengeance of the Witch-finder''; ''The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie''; and ''The Doom of the Haunted Opera'', respectively. Starting in 1996 with ''The Hand of the Necromancer'', Strickland began writing his own stories based on the established characters.<ref name=":1" />

Strickland announced in spring 2005 that new adventures of the Bellairs' characters were under way, following contract negotiations with the Bellairs' estate and a two-year absence since his last-published novel. The first of these new adventures was ''The House Where Nobody Lived'', which was published on October 5, 2006. All told, thirteen sequels to Bellairs' books have been written by Strickland.<ref name=":1" />

=== Critical analysis ===
Critical attention has focused on ''The House With the Clock in Its Walls'' as exemplar of Bellairs' literary merit and style. Critics have argued that Bellairs wrestled with notions of masculinity, femininity, and [[queer]]ness in his works.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Huskey|first=Melynda|title=A Specter is Haunting New Zebedee: Reading John Bellairs as Queer-Kid Gothic|url=https://research.wsulibs.wsu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2376/2357/Huskey%20-%20Specter%20is%20haunting.pdf?sequence=1|access-date=2021-09-05|archive-date=September 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905234857/https://research.wsulibs.wsu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2376/2357/Huskey%20-%20Specter%20is%20haunting.pdf?sequence=1|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Skowera|first=Maciej|date=2019-07-24|title=Lewis Barnavelt and the Rainbow over New Zebedee: Queering The House with a Clock in Its Walls|url=https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/dlk/article/view/29|journal=Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura|language=en|volume=1|issue=1|pages=85–108|doi=10.32798/dlk.29|issn=2657-9510|doi-access=free}}</ref> Professor [[Gary D. Schmidt]] contended that Bellairs' Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger trilogy traced the "emerging acceptance of self" by the two main characters, who struggled with internalized [[Gender role|gender norms]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schmidt |first=Gary D. |date=1987-03-01 |title=See how they grow: Character development in children's series books |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01135437 |journal=[[Children's Literature in Education]] |language=en |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=34–44 |doi=10.1007/BF01135437 |issn=1573-1693 |s2cid=143265245|url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[Elizabeth E. Wein|Elizabeth Wein]] analyzes Bellairs's use of the [[haunted house]] motif in ''The House With a Clock in Its Walls''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wein |first=Elizabeth |date=2000 |title=Mystery in a House |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/v024/24.2wein.html |journal=[[The Lion and the Unicorn (journal)|The Lion and the Unicorn]] |language=en |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=248–249 |doi=10.1353/uni.2000.0024 |issn=1080-6563 |via=[[Project MUSE]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> One of the most substantial academic treatments of Bellairs comes from Dawn Heinecken, professor of [[Women's studies|women's and gender studies]] at the [[University of Louisville]]. Heinecken situates Bellairs in 1970s-era anxieties about gender and changing discourses around masculinity, which were reflected in the era's children's literature.<ref name=":5" />

Conservative critic William Kilpatrick observed of Bellairs that "While his books are quite frightening, they are well written and undergirded by a moral vision" and recommended them to parents who wish to expose their children to age-appropriate literature that both entertains and edifies.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kilpatrick|first=William|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/937954417|title=Books that build character: A guide to teaching your child moral values through stories|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1994|isbn=978-0-671-88423-9|location=New York|pages=217|language=English|oclc=937954417}}</ref> English education instructor Randi Dickson suggested that Bellairs' oeuvre evidenced greater literary merit than the works of [[R. L. Stine]], whose horror fiction appeals to a youthful demographic similar to Bellairs's.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dickson|first=Randi|date=1998|title=Horror: To Gratify, Not Edify|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41484083|journal=Language Arts|volume=76|issue=2|pages=115–122|doi=10.58680/la199812 |jstor=41484083|issn=0360-9170|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Educators have used ''The House With the Clock in Its Walls'' as a case study for using storytelling techniques to draw in reluctant readers<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Raymond|first=Kettel|date=1994|title=Motivating the Reluctant Reader: Using the Storytelling Episode Model|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED404628|journal=Storytelling World|volume=3|issue=1|pages=31–33|via=[[ERIC]]}}</ref> and assigned ''The Curse of the Blue Figurine'' to students in a book club.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lewis |first1=Mark A. |last2=Zisselsberger |first2=Margarita Gómez |date=2019 |title=Scaffolding and Inequitable Participation in Linguistically Diverse Book Clubs |journal=[[Reading Research Quarterly]] |language=en |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=167–186 |doi=10.1002/rrq.234 |issn=1936-2722 |s2cid=149462377 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

Bellairs' books have been translated into Czech, French, German, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, among other languages.

==Illustrators==
[[Edward Gorey]] provided cover illustrations and frontispieces for all but three of Bellairs's 15 children's novels and continued to illustrate the Strickland novels until Gorey's death in 2000. The novel ''The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge'' featured Gorey's last published artwork before his death.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Goreyography: West Wing: Seeking Gorey: Available from Amazon.com|url=https://www.goreyography.com/amaz/amazon.html|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.goreyography.com}}</ref> Despite the strong association of the novels with Gorey's illustrations, Bellairs and Gorey never met and probably never even corresponded.<ref name=":2" /> The Gorey covers are no longer in print, though some newer editions of the novels still contain interior Gorey illustrations.

[[S. D. Schindler]] and Bart Goldman have created cover art for the Strickland books published since 2001.

Marilyn Fitschen provided the covers and illustrations for Bellairs' first three books: ''St Fidgeta and Other Parodies'', ''The Pedant and the Shuffly'', and ''The Face in the Frost''.

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="white-space:nowrap"
!#!!Book Title!!Award!!Year
|-
|style="text-align:center"|01||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||American Library Association Children's Books of International Interest Award||style="text-align:center"|1973
|-
|style="text-align:center"|02||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||New York Times Outstanding Books of 1973 Award||style="text-align:center"|1973
|-
|style="text-align:center"|03||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||South Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee||style="text-align:center"|1978–1979
|-
|style="text-align:center"|04||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||Michigan Young Readers Award Nominee||style="text-align:center"|1980
|-
|style="text-align:center"|05||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||Maude Hart Lovelace Award Nominee (Minnesota)||style="text-align:center"|1982
|-
|style="text-align:center"|06||''The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring''||South Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee||style="text-align:center"|1979–1980
|-
|style="text-align:center"|07||''The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring''||Utah Children's Fiction Book Award||style="text-align:center"|1981
|-
|style="text-align:center"|08||''[[The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn]]''||[http://www.maudhartlovelace.org/mhl2/ Maud Hart Lovelace Award] Nominee (Minnesota)||style="text-align:center"|1983
|-
|style="text-align:center"|09||''The Curse of the Blue Figurine''||Utah Children's Fiction Book Award Nominee||style="text-align:center"|1985
|-
|style="text-align:center"|10||''The Curse of the Blue Figurine''||[[Indian Paintbrush Book Award]] Nominee (Wyoming)||style="text-align:center"|1986
|-
|style="text-align:center"|11||''The Curse of the Blue Figurine''||Virginia Young Readers Award, Middle School Division||style="text-align:center"|1986–1987
|-
|style="text-align:center"|12||''The Curse of the Blue Figurine''||Read-Aloud Books Too Good to Miss List (Indiana Library Federation)||style="text-align:center"|1990–1991
|-
|style="text-align:center"|13||''The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt''||Iowa Teen Award Nominee||style="text-align:center"|1985–1986
|-
|style="text-align:center"|14||''[[The Dark Secret of Weatherend]]''||Utah Children's Fiction Book Award Nominee||style="text-align:center"|1987
|-
|style="text-align:center"|15||''The Eyes of the Killer Robot''||Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee (Illinois)||style="text-align:center"|1991
|-
|style="text-align:center"|16||''[[The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb]]''||[[Edgar Award|Edgar Allan Poe Award]], Best Juvenile Division, Nominee||style="text-align:center"|1989
|-
|style="text-align:center"|17||''The Specter from the Magician's Museum''||Georgia Author of the Year Award, Young Adult Division||style="text-align:center"|1998
|-
|style="text-align:center"|18||''The Specter from the Magician's Museum''||New York Public Library "Best Books for the Teen Age" Awards||style="text-align:center"| 
|}

==Published books== <!-- 2015-08-17, was Bibliography, but we list only published books after export of Audio and TV to next section Adaptations -->

===Novels===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="white-space:nowrap"
!#!!Title!!Month!!Year !!Series !!Chapters !!Pages !!Writer !!Illustrator
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|style="text-align:center"|01||''[[St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies]]''||style="text-align:center"|Jun||style="text-align:center"|1966|| ||style="text-align:center"|12||style="text-align:center"|123||John Bellairs||Marilyn Fitschen
|-
|style="text-align:center"|02||''The Pedant and the Shuffly''||style="text-align:center"|Feb||style="text-align:center"|1968|| ||style="text-align:center"|NA||style="text-align:center"|79||John Bellairs||Marilyn Fitschen
|-
|style="text-align:center"|03||''[[The Face in the Frost]]''||style="text-align:center"| ||style="text-align:center"|1969|| ||style="text-align:center"|11||style="text-align:center"|174||John Bellairs||Marilyn Fitschen
|-
|style="text-align:center"|04||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||style="text-align:center"|Jan||style="text-align:center"|1973||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|11||style="text-align:center"|179||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|05||''The Figure in the Shadows''||style="text-align:center"| ||style="text-align:center"|1975||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|13||style="text-align:center"|155||John Bellairs||[[Mercer Mayer]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|06||''The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring''||style="text-align:center"|Jan||style="text-align:center"|1976||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|13||style="text-align:center"|188||John Bellairs||[[Richard Egielski]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|07||''[[The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn]]''||style="text-align:center"|May||style="text-align:center"|1978||[[Anthony Monday (series)|Anthony Monday]]||style="text-align:center"|17||style="text-align:center"|180||John Bellairs||Judith Gwyn Brown
|-
|style="text-align:center"|08||''The Curse of the Blue Figurine''||style="text-align:center"|May||style="text-align:center"|1983||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|12||style="text-align:center"|200||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|09||''The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt''||style="text-align:center"|Nov||style="text-align:center"|1983||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|16||style="text-align:center"|168||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|10||''[[The Dark Secret of Weatherend]]''||style="text-align:center"|Jul||style="text-align:center"|1984||[[Anthony Monday (series)|Anthony Monday]]||style="text-align:center"|15||style="text-align:center"|182||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|11||''The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull''||style="text-align:center"|Nov||style="text-align:center"|1984||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|11||style="text-align:center"|170||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|12||''The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost''||style="text-align:center"|Nov||style="text-align:center"|1985||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|15||style="text-align:center"|147||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|13||''The Eyes of the Killer Robot''||style="text-align:center"|Oct||style="text-align:center"|1986||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|17||style="text-align:center"|167||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|14||''[[The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb]]''||style="text-align:center"|May||style="text-align:center"|1988||[[Anthony Monday (series)|Anthony Monday]]||style="text-align:center"|14||style="text-align:center"|168||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|15||''The Trolley to Yesterday''||style="text-align:center"|Jul||style="text-align:center"|1989||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|18||style="text-align:center"|183||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|16||''The Chessmen of Doom''||style="text-align:center"|Nov||style="text-align:center"|1989||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|16||style="text-align:center"|155||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|17||''The Secret of the Underground Room''||style="text-align:center"|Mar||style="text-align:center"|1990||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|13||style="text-align:center"|127||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|18||''The Mansion in the Mist''||style="text-align:center"|Aug||style="text-align:center"|1992||[[Anthony Monday (series)|Anthony Monday]]||style="text-align:center"|17||style="text-align:center"|170||John Bellairs||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|19||''The Ghost in the Mirror''||style="text-align:center"|Apr||style="text-align:center"|1993||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|13||style="text-align:center"|169|| coauthors{{dagger}} ||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|20||''The Vengeance of the Witch-finder''||style="text-align:center"|Sep||style="text-align:center"|1993||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|15||style="text-align:center"|153|| coauthors{{dagger}} ||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|21||''The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie''||style="text-align:center"|Sep||style="text-align:center"|1994||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|15||style="text-align:center"|153|| coauthors{{dagger}} ||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|22||''The Doom of the Haunted Opera''||style="text-align:center"|Sep||style="text-align:center"|1995||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|16||style="text-align:center"|153|| coauthors{{dagger}} ||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|23||''The Hand of the Necromancer''||style="text-align:center"|Sep||style="text-align:center"|1996||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|18||style="text-align:center"|168||[[Brad Strickland]]||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|24||''The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder''||style="text-align:center"|Oct||style="text-align:center"|1997||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|16||style="text-align:center"|149||[[Brad Strickland]]||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|25||''The Specter from the Magician's Museum''||style="text-align:center"|Mar||style="text-align:center"|1998||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|16||style="text-align:center"|149||[[Brad Strickland]]||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|26||''The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost''||style="text-align:center"|Sep||style="text-align:center"|1999||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|15||style="text-align:center"|166||[[Brad Strickland]]||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|27||''The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge''||style="text-align:center"|Sep||style="text-align:center"|2000||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|15||style="text-align:center"|151||[[Brad Strickland]]||[[Edward Gorey]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|28||''The Tower at the End of the World''||style="text-align:center"|Sep||style="text-align:center"|2001||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|15||style="text-align:center"|146||[[Brad Strickland]]|| [[S. D. Schindler]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|29||''The Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost''||style="text-align:center"|Aug||style="text-align:center"|2003||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|14||style="text-align:center"|152||[[Brad Strickland]]|| [[S. D. Schindler]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|30||''The House Where Nobody Lived''||style="text-align:center"|Oct||style="text-align:center"|2006||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|18||style="text-align:center"|173||[[Brad Strickland]]||Bart Goldman
|-
|style="text-align:center"|31||''The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer''||style="text-align:center"|Oct||style="text-align:center"|2008||[[Lewis Barnavelt (series)|Lewis Barnavelt]]||style="text-align:center"|13||style="text-align:center"|168||[[Brad Strickland]]||Bart Goldman
|-
|style="text-align:center"|32||''The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows''||style="text-align:center"|Aug|| style="text-align:center" |2023||[[Johnny Dixon (series)|Johnny Dixon]]||style="text-align:center"|17|| style="text-align:center" |167||[[Brad Strickland]]||[[Open Road Integrated Media|Open Road Media]]
|}
: {{dagger}} Some Lewis Barnavelt and Johnny Dixon books were outlined by Bellairs and completed by Strickland, who subsequently created new stories in both series.

===Publishers===
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!#!!Title!!Amber!!Artist House!!Bantam Skylark/BDD!!Barnes & Noble!!Corgi!!Dell Yearling/BDD!!Dial/Penguin!!Editions du Rocher!!Editora Record!!Gallimard Jeunesse!!Harcourt Brace Jovanovich!!Heyne!!Macmillan!!Mythopoeic Press!!NESFA Press!!Puffin/Penguin!!Shueisha Publishing
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|style="text-align:center"|01||''[[St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies]]''|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || 
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|style="text-align:center"|02||''The Pedant and the Shuffly''|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || 
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|style="text-align:center"|03||''[[The Face in the Frost]]''|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || 
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|style="text-align:center"|04||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|05||''The Figure in the Shadows''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|06||''The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|07||''[[The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn]]''|| || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|08||''The Curse of the Blue Figurine''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|09||''The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}
|-
|style="text-align:center"|10||''[[The Dark Secret of Weatherend]]''|| || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|11||''The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}
|-
|style="text-align:center"|12||''The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost''|| || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}
|-
|style="text-align:center"|13||''The Eyes of the Killer Robot''|| || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|14||''[[The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb]]''|| || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|15||''The Trolley to Yesterday''|| || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|16||''The Chessmen of Doom''|| || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|17||''The Secret of the Underground Room''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|18||''The Mansion in the Mist''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|19||''The Ghost in the Mirror''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|20||''The Vengeance of the Witch-finder''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|21||''The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|22||''The Doom of the Haunted Opera''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|23||''The Hand of the Necromancer''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|24||''The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|25||''The Specter from the Magician's Museum''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|26||''The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
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|style="text-align:center"|27||''The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge''||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|28||''The Tower at the End of the World''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|29||''The Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || || || 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|30||''The House Where Nobody Lived''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || || || 
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|style="text-align:center"|31||''The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer''|| || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || || || 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|32||''Magic Mirrors''|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || 
|-
|style="text-align:center"|33||''The Best of John Bellairs''|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || || || || || || 
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|style="text-align:center"|34||''The Best of John Bellairs 2''|| || || ||style="text-align:center"|{{Y}}|| || || || || || || || || || || || || 
|}
</div>

== Adaptations ==

=== Films ===
On November 18, 2011, Mythology Entertainment, founded by [[Bradley J. Fischer|Brad Fischer]],<ref>{{cite web|date=September 10, 2009|title=Brad Fischer – Co-President, Production|url=http://www.phoenixpictures.com/about-us/brad-fischer.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317103827/http://www.phoenixpictures.com/about-us/brad-fischer.html|archive-date=March 17, 2012|access-date=June 17, 2012}}</ref> co-president of production at [[Phoenix Pictures]]; [[Laeta Kalogridis]]; and [[James Vanderbilt]] announced that they hired [[Eric Kripke]], creator of ''[[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Supernatural]]'' and ''[[Revolution (TV series)|Revolution]]'', to write and produce a feature film based on John Bellairs' work through a partnership with John's estate. "Jamie, Laeta and I are thrilled to launch Mythology Entertainment and to be partnering with Eric Kripke and the estate of John Bellairs for our first feature project,” Fischer said.<blockquote>“As a kid, Eric was inspired by Bellairs’ work and these books have stayed with him through the years…. As a company, we aspire to be a haven for artists and friends who believe in the power of myth and remember that feeling we all got as kids, when the lights went down and the images came up and anything was possible.”<ref>{{cite web|author=Mike Fleming|date=November 18, 2011|title=Phoenix Co-President Bradley Fischer Forms Mythology With Scribes Laeta Kalogridis And James Vanderbilt|url=https://deadline.com/2011/11/phoenix-co-president-bradley-fischer-forms-mythology-with-scribes-laeta-kalogridis-and-james-vanderbilt-196642/|access-date=June 17, 2012|publisher=Deadline New York}}
</ref></blockquote>

The film adaptation of Bellairs' novel ''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls (film)|The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]'' stars [[Jack Black]] as Uncle Jonathan, [[Cate Blanchett]] as Mrs. Zimmerman, and [[Owen Vaccaro]] as Lewis Barnavelt, and was directed by [[Eli Roth]]. It was released on September 21, 2018.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lizzie Plaugic|date=March 27, 2018|title=Watch the first trailer for The House with a Clock in its Walls|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17168142/the-house-with-a-clock-in-its-walls-trailer-watch-jack-black|access-date=March 27, 2018|website=The Verge}}
</ref>

===Audiobooks===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="white-space:nowrap"
!#!!Title!!Year!!Publisher!!Narrator
|-
|style="text-align:center"|01||''[[The Face in the Frost]]''||style="text-align:center"|1995||[[Recorded Books]]||[[George Guidall]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|02||''The Ghost in the Mirror''||style="text-align:center"|1995||Recorded Books||George Guidall
|-
|style="text-align:center"|03||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||style="text-align:center"|1995||Recorded Books||George Guidall
|-
|style="text-align:center"|04||''[[The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb]]''||style="text-align:center"|1995||Recorded Books||Betty Low
|-
|style="text-align:center"|05||''The Mansion in the Mist''||style="text-align:center"|1995||Recorded Books||Betty Low
|}

As of September 2022, Blackstone Publishing has re-issued Face In the Frost and all 12 Lewis Barnavelt books on CD and digital formats. Beginning in May 2022 and continuing until mid-2023, Blackstone commissioned audiobooks of the Johnny Dixon books, read by Johnny Heller.

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="white-space:nowrap"
!# !!TV program title !!Book title !!Producer !!Year
|-
|style="text-align:center"|01||''Once Upon a Midnight Scary''||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||VideoGems||style="text-align:center"|1979
|-
|style="text-align:center"|02||''The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes''||''[[The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn]]''||VideoGems||style="text-align:center"|1980
|-
|style="text-align:center"|03||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||''[[The House with a Clock in Its Walls]]''||Barr Films||style="text-align:center"|1991
|-
|style="text-align:center"|04||''[[The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn]]''||''[[The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn]]''||Barr Films||style="text-align:center"|1991
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|Children's literature |Speculative fiction}}
* [[Lewis Barnavelt (series)]]
* [[Johnny Dixon (series)]]
* [[Anthony Monday (series)]]
* [[List of horror fiction authors]]

==References==
{{reflist
}}

==External links==
* [http://bellairsia.com/ Bellairsia] | [http://bellairsia.blogspot.com/ blog] | [http://bellairsia.ning.com/ forum] – celebrating John Bellairs
* {{Find a Grave|6459483}}
*{{ISFDB name|id=1495|name=John Bellairs}}
* {{LCAuth|n50006803|John Bellairs|42|}}
*[https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/2543 John Bellairs Papers] at the [[University of Minnesota]] Libraries

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