num_pages: 153
description: When Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger explore an abandoned theater, they discover an unpublished opera score. Ignoring a strange omen, they show it to their music teacher, who heralds The Day of Doom as a masterpiece. Then eerie Henry Vanderhelm, the composer's grandson, arrives-with a plan to awaken the dead and enslave the world!The late John Bellairs was the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of many Gothic novels. Brad Strickland has seamlessly completed several John Bellairs' novels, and is the author of The Hand of the Necromancer and The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder, both based on Bellairs' Johnny Dixon character.
language: English
title: The Doom of the Haunted Opera
titlecomplete: The Doom of the Haunted Opera
characters: Lewis Barnavelt, Jonathan Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Florence Zimmermann
genres: Fiction, Magic, Mystery, Juvenile, Horror, Young Adult, Paranormal, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy
ratings_count: 603
places: New Zebedee, Michigan
series: Lewis Barnavelt
publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers