![]() ![]() With the professor as his guide, Johnny sets out on a quest that will put him face-to-face with the crazy, long-dead priest. But then he takes an old scroll and a seemingly harmless figurine from the church basement, accepts a magic ring from a mysterious stranger-and is plunged into a terrifying adventure that may cost him his life. When the professor learns Johnny loves ghost stories, he tells the boy the spookiest legend in Duston Heights, Massachusetts-the tale of the haunted church on the edge of town, with demonic carvings on its altar, and the troubled spirit of mad Father Baart, who is said to have killed two people before vanishing long ago. Johnny Dixon doesn't believe that the ghost of mad Father Baart haunts the town church. ![]() Best of all, he's friends with Professor Childermass, an eccentric academic who's about to take Johnny on the adventure of a lifetime. Although life in a new house is strange, Johnny's Grampa listens to his favorite ballgames, takes him on long walks, and tells him stories of the strange mysteries that lurk in the shadows. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) EspaƱol (es). It's the 1950s when Johnny Dixon's mother dies, his father goes to fight in the Korean War, and he goes to live with his grandparents. The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs, April 1987, Demco Media edition, Turtleback. A boy sneaks into an old church to confront a mad ghost in this adventure by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls. ![]()
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