The Chessmen of Doom

Pages: 114
Published: 2000
Language: English

Johnny Dixon, Fergie, and Professor Childermass find themselves bound by a peculiar will, forcing them to spend their summer at a remote estate. What begins as an unusual inheritance quickly turns sinister when they discover a madman with a terrifying plan to destroy the world. The trio must use their wits to stop him before it's too late.

Prose complexity: 1/10

Adventurous Creepy

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Children's Books Fantasy Mystery

John Bellairs

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...