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From inside the chest a whispering sound came....Anthony was looking down a bottomless pit. He couldn't tear himself away. And he began to have the growing urge to throw himself in....
Anthony Monday is delighted when Miss Eells and her brother Emerson invite him to spend a restful summer vacation in an old house on a desolate island. But soon Anthony finds a chest that can transport them to another world -- a horrifying place where a maniacal group is plotting the destruction of the people of Earth. Will Anthony and his friends be able to save mankind -- or will they perish in their desperate struggle?
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The password: Auro est locus in quo conflatur...
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Emerson Eels wielding an ax handle! By golly... look out, Shaft!
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Toward the end of the first week of their stay, Anthony began to feel that there was something wrong about the house. Nothing that you could get a grip on, but still something, well, wrong. One night he woke during a wild thunderstorm, and the boards in the corridor outside his bedroom were creaking loudly. Lightning leapt in through the tiny window, and loud cracking peals of thunder burst overhead. But it was the creaking that bothered Anthony -- it sounded like people walking up and down. When he finally got up his courage, he opened the door and peered out. Nobody there. The doors to Miss Eell's and Emerson's bedrooms were shut, and they were probably asleep. Timidly, Anthony crept down the front staircase and peered into the shadowy living toom. As his eyes got used to the dark, he saw something that froze his blood: Someone was sitting in one of the rockers. Anthony clenched his teeth and closed his eyes. He could hear his heart hammering. Then he opened his eyes again, and a blue flash of lightning lit the room. The dark shape was gone.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly courtesy Jonathan Abucejo. |
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This is the fourth book in the Anthony Monday series.
Bellairs' projected title for this book was The Mansion at the End of the World.
This was Bellairs' last original work, published posthumously in 1992.
Brad Strickland says that as he was working on The Ghost in the Mirror, Dial sent him a copy The Mansion in the Mist to become familiar with Bellairs' work and help with proofreading.
Edward Gorey’s illustration of the titular mansion was originally the artwork on the back cover of the dust jacket. In subsequent U.S. paperback printings it has been used as the artwork on the front cover.
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| Did you know: the Autarch Mansion may have been inspired by Mount Stuart House in Scotland? |
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Author: John Bellairs
Published: August 1992
Publishing history
Chapters: 17 | Pages: 170
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