The Chessmen of Doom
1989
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
155
Number of Pages
Part of Series
Johnny Dixon, Fergie and Professor Childermass comply with a strange will left by the Professor's brother, which requires them to spend the summer at a desolate estate where they encounter a madman bent on destroying the world.
Avg Rating
3.90
Number of Ratings
832
5 STARS
31%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
John Bellairs
Author · 22 books
John Bellairs (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at Shimer College that coincided with that school's storied Grotesque Internecine Struggle. After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from Shimer College Wiki)
