Brad Strickland
Brad Strickland was born in New Holland, Georgia, in 1947 and has written over seventy-five books in the intervening years. He is also a professor of English at the University of Georgia in Gainsville, about six miles from where he was born. He and his wife, Barbara, have two grown children, both of whom have artistic careers of their own. Their nest is not empty, however, as they have three cats and two dogs, which is enough to keep them busy.
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The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder
- By: Brad Strickland
- Narrator: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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3.86(331 ratings)
Hidden away in the local library, a sorcerer’s book casts an evil spell in the next novel in the Johnny Dixon Series.
Johnny Dixon and his best friend, Fergie, are whiling away a rainy day at the Duston Heights library when Johnny asks a screwy question: “What’s the last book in the library?” After Johnny goes home, Fergie decides to find out. There, under number 999.99, he finds a very peculiar tome, The Book of True Wishes, which is all about Fergie’s favorite subject: himself. The book knows Fergie’s name and promises him everything he ever wanted, which means he is about to forget a very important rule: be careful what you wish for.
When the book puts Fergie under the spell of a mad old wizard, Johnny and his friend Professor Childermass will do whatever it takes to break the book’s hold and save their friend.
... Read moreThe Doom of the Haunted Opera
- By: Brad Strickland
- Narrator: Brad Strickland
- Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 04, 2018
- Language: English
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3.87(457 ratings)
Two kids find a haunted opera score capable of raising the dead! When Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger explore an abandoned theater, they discover an unpublished opera score entitled “The Day of Doom”. Ignoring a strange omen, they show it to their music teacher, who heralds “The Day of Doom” as a masterpiece. Little do they know that the eerie Henry Vanderhelm, the composer’s grandson, arrives-with a plan.A plan to awaken the dead and enslave the world!
... Read moreThe Hand of the Necromancer
- By: Brad Strickland
- Narrator: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
In a Massachusetts town, an evil wizard is about to come back from the dead and a young hero must fight to stop him
In the days of the Salem witch trials, the sleepy hamlet of Duston Heights had just one practitioner of the dark arts: the notorious necromancer Esdrias Blackleach. As the fever for witch hunting reached its terrible peak, Blackleach was accused of using powerful black magic against his fellow townsfolk. But just before he could be brought to trial, he dropped dead, escaping justice forever. Or so it seemed …
Fast forward to the 1950s, the inquisitive young sleuth Johnny Dixon and his mentor Professor Childermass are getting ready to donate a box of Blackleach artifacts to the local museum when a descendant of the sorcerer shows up and attempts to steal his ancestor’s wooden hand. He has a fiendish plan to raise the old necromancer from the dead, and only Johnny and the professor can stop him and make the town safe from black magic forever.
... Read moreThe House Where Nobody Lived
- By: Brad Strickland
- Narrator: Brad Strickland
- Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 20, 2018
- Language: English
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3.73(210 ratings)
The lovable underdog Lewis Barnavelt and his best friend Rose Rita are at it again-investigating the curious (and possibly supernatural?) goings-on in their town of New Zebedee. They get more than they bargained for when a new family moves into the Hawaii House, one of the oddest-looking houses in town, and Lewis and Rose Rita are drawn into a mystery involving forces far beyond the shores of their imagination. Why are there strange drumbeats emanating from the top floor of the Hawaii House? And why is Lewis having dreams about Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire? Incorporating actual Hawaiian legends with a spine-tingling story of suspense, this is another great addition to the Bellairs canon.
... Read moreThe Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer
- By: Brad Strickland
- Narrator: Brad Strickland
- Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 20, 2018
- Language: English
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3.81(182 ratings)
The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows
- By: Brad Strickland
- Narrator: Johnny Heller
- Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.25(16 ratings)
A flu epidemic ushers in a plague of dark magic in this spooktastic mystery featuring teenage sleuth Johnny Dixon from The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost.
Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that’s raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon’s grandmother falls ill, he’s sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn comes out of retirement to make house calls.
After seeing a scary vision of his bedridden grandmother outside of a window, Johnny starts to feel on edge. Then he and his best friend find what looks to be a weird map of a cemetery in Dr. Ashburn’s house. One specific grave is marked with an “X,” the burial place of a woman who practiced witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
The townspeople recover from the flu, but they can’t escape the terrifying illusions and shadow people that now haunt them, unless Johnny and his friends find the key to unlock the secrets of the graveyard before a dreadful prophecy comes to pass …
... Read moreThe Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost
- By: Brad Strickland
- Narrator: Brad Strickland
- Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 24, 2018
- Language: English
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3.76(230 ratings)
Lewis Barnavelt is back and this time he has stumbled upon something more powerful than even his imagination can dream up. A camping trip with his Scout troop leads Lewis straight to an old grave and a mysterious, magical whistle. When Lewis discovers that this whistle has the power to stop the boys who insist upon bullying him, he is left with a tough decision. Does he continue to use the whistle, which he suspects might not be fully safe? Is Lewis strong enough to face the potent spirit that he is unknowingly summoning?
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