Title: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
First published: November 1, 2000
Description: When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan, comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Selenna Izard. It seems that Selenna and her husband built a timepiece into the walls—a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!


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Also contained in:
[Best of John Bellairs](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3338229W)
Subjects: Magic, Fiction, Children's stories, Juvenile fiction, Magicians, Juvenile works, Juvenile audience, clocks, Halloween, tombs, end time, Witches, Clocks and watches, fiction, Supernatural, fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Barnavelt, lewis (fictitious character), fiction, Pottinger, rose rita (fictitious character), fiction, Children's fiction, Magic, fiction, Time travel, fiction, Michigan, fiction, Clocks and watches, Witchcraft
Places: New Zebedee, Michigan
People: Isaac Izard, Lewis Barnavelt, Jonathan Barnavelt, Florence Zimmermann, Selenna Izard, Tarby Corrigan