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| | Amazon.com: The Hand of the Necromancer (Johnny Dixon): Books: Brad Strickland,Edward Gorey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Complete with a haunted house, nightmares, wild storms, snakes, near-death by lightning, and even Johnny's imprisonment in a small, decorative snow globe, the story of Mergal's intent to raise his dead ancestor, the self-styled Emperor of the World, is stylistically a treat as well, full of foreshadowing and figurative language. |
 | | Johnny Dixon and cranky Professor Childermass are the stars here, with Strickland pitting them against a diabolical 1950s wizard, Mattheus Mergel, who is trying to cement his power by resurrecting the spirit of a seventeenth-century warlock. |
 | | Johnny Dixon is quite depressed when his best friend Fergie leaves for a while. |
| www.amazon.com /Hand-Necromancer-Johnny-Dixon/dp/0140386955 (1524 words) |
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