Our Favorite Writers Share Their Favorite Childhood Books
Benjamin Percy, author of RED MOON
The House with the Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs. This is the first chapter book that I fell in love with, that I reread until the pages fell out. The Edward Gorey illustrations, too, enchanted me, and I sketched out my own imitations of them. Witches, warlocks, cemeteries, and a clock hidden in the walls of a grand old house, beating like a pulse.