Lewis tries to win Tarby back by demonstrating how to raise the dead in the local cemetery on Halloween but in doing so unwittingly releases Selena Izard from her tomb. Lewis befriends a local boy named Tarby Corrigan, who is everything he is not-popular, athletic, thin-but the two soon begin to drift apart. Before dying, Isaac constructed the eponymous clock that he hid somewhere inside the walls of the house, where it eternally ticks as it attempts to pull the world into a magical alignment, which would destroy the world. Jonathan's house was previously owned by Isaac and Selenna Izard, a sinister couple who had dedicated their lives to black magic, and plotted to bring about the end of the world. His next-door neighbor and good friend, Florence Zimmermann, is a far more powerful good witch. Lewis' uncle turns out to be a mediocre, though well-intentioned, warlock. Lewis Barnavelt, recently an orphan, moves to the town of New Zebedee, Michigan, to live with his mysterious uncle Jonathan Barnavelt. It is the first in the series of twelve novels featuring the fictional American boy Lewis Barnavelt. The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a 1973 juvenile mystery fiction novel written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey.
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