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The seventh book in the famous Lewis Barnavelt series

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Lewis and Rose Rita have to participate in a talent show whether they like it or not. When they come up with the idea of doing a fake magic show, they decide to borrow some books on stage magic from a friend who works at a museum. After Rose Rita cuts her finger on an enchanted Egyptian scroll, she awakens the corpse of the scroll´s previous owner, Belle Frisson, who captures Rose Rita and wants to use her body to live forever.

Lewis must work together with his Uncle Jonathan and neighbour Mrs Zimmermann to rescue Rose Rita from the tomb in which she´s imprisoned.

For fans of Goosebumps.

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John Bellairs (1938-1991) was an award-winning American author of many gothic mystery novels for children and young adults, including The House with a Clock in Its Walls, which received both the New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year Award and the American Library Association Children´s Books of International Interest Award, The Lamp from the Warlock´s Tomb, which won the Edgar Award and The Specter from the Magician´s Museum, which won the New York Public Library ´Best Books for the Teen Age´ Award.

Brad Strickland has written more than eighty-five published books, including entries in the Lewis Barnavelt and Johnny Dixon series, following the death of the original series creator, John Bellairs. He is a Professor Emeritus of English and lives in Georgia with his wife, Barbara.

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