The Face in the Frost - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLC.ISBN-13:9781497642416ISBN-10:1497642418UPC:9781497642416Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Fantasy, Horror, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyBook Topic:EpicSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.37 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC1PR3TBX0
A fantasy classic by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls--basis for the Jack Black movie--and "a writer who knows what wizardry is all about" (Ursula K. Le Guin). A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a horror novel with the inventiveness of fairy tale-inspired fantasy. Prospero, a tall, skinny misfit of a wizard, lives in the South Kingdom--a patchwork of feuding duchies and small manors, all loosely loyal to one figurehead king. Along with his necromancer friend Roger Bacon, who has been on a quest to find a mysterious book, Prospero must flee his home to escape ominous pursuers. Thus begins an adventure that will lead him to a grove where his old rival, Melichus, is falsely rumored to be buried and to a less-than-hospitable inn in the town of Five Dials--and ultimately into a dangerous battle with origins in a magical glass paperweight. Lin Carter called The Face in the Frost one of "the best fantasy novels to appear since The Lord of the Rings . . . Absolutely first class." With a unique blend of humor and darkness, it remains one of the most beloved tales by the Edgar Award-nominated author also known for the long-running Lewis Barnavelt series.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLC.ISBN-13:9781497642416ISBN-10:1497642418UPC:9781497642416Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Fantasy, Horror, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyBook Topic:EpicSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.37 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC1PR3TBX0
John Bellairs is beloved as a master of Gothic young adult novels and fantasies. His series about the adventures of Lewis Barnavelt and his uncle Jonathan, which includes The House with a Clock in Its Walls, is a classic. He also wrote a series of novels featuring the character Johnny Dixon. Among the titles in that series are The Curse of the Blue Figurine; The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt; and The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull. His stand-alone novel The Face in the Frost is also regarded as a fantasy classic, and among his earlier works are St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies and The Pedant and the Shuffly. Bellairs was a prolific writer, publishing more than a dozen novels before his untimely death in 1991.
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