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| Monday, Anthony |
| Physical description |
- Has a thin, pinched face, and a long pointed nose. He is tall, skinny and muscular [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 3]; usually wears a red leather cap with a scrunched peak.
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| Birth date |
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Anthony is 13 at the beginning of both The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn and The Mansion in the Mist, but is 14 at the beginning of The Dark Secret of Weatherend, which begins in 1954, making his year of birth to be somewhere around 1940. Perhaps Bellairs didn't really stick to an overall progressive chronological storyline?
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| Family |
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Howard, father.
- Ginny, mother.
- Keith, brother.
- His mother’s "most horrible relatives," Aunt Elda and Uncle Hartley, lived in Blue Pigeon, Minnesota [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 78].
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| Profession |
- A high school student at the Hoosac high school and works part-time as a page at the Hoosac Public Library.
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| Residence |
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| Likes |
- Great friends with Miss Eells who he felt was the only person in the world who really understood him [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 73].
- Anthony has a thing about red leather caps. He wears them summer and winter, in good weather and bad [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 3].
- Ddrinks coffee [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 170].
- Likes his brother a lot [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 22].
- Loves the Jackie Gleason Show [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 65].
- Enjoyed exploring [The Mansion in the Mist, 98].
- Puzzles fascinate him [The Mansion in the Mist, 20].
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| Dislikes |
- Doesn't care for tea in a teacup [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 64].
- Doesn't like parties much [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 138].
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| Fears |
- Worries quite a bit about money [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 4].
- Afraid of dogs [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 12].
- A little afraid of Emerson Eells [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 39].
- Deathly afraid of escaping gas [The Mansion in the Mist, 28] and every night at home checks the stove to make sure it is properly shut off.
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| Talents |
- Has that built-in wakeup system that some people have [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 119].
- A pretty hand young man [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 74].
- Is learning how to play the harmonica [The Mansion in the Mist, 13].
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| Hobbies |
- Reads mysteries by John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 13].
- Playing chess with Miss Eells [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 127].
- Plays basketball [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 66].
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| Temperament |
- First class worrywart [The Mansion in the Mist, 129].
- Doesn't have a lot of friends his own age [The Mansion in the Mist, 4] and sometimes doesn't think very much of himself [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 7].
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| Religion |
- Says his parents didn't go to church [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 31].
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| Transportation |
- Mostly rides his bike [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 13].
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| Other useful information |
- He's a tidy fellow who always drapes his shirt and pants neatly over the chair if he is going to wear them the next day and always lays out tomorrow's underwear and socks on top of the pants [The Dark Secret of Weatherend, 52].
- Kids sometimes made fun of him for having a father who owned and ran a saloon [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 43].
- Has never been a top student [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 69].
- Often day dreamed when drying dishes or stacking books at the library [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 124].
- Always carried his St. Christopher pocket pen light around with him [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 155].
- When nervous he sometimes would roll two steel ball bearings around in his hand [The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, 152].
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