Lewis spots Isaac in the window of a house of a neighbor, Mrs. On Halloween night, Lewis performs a necromancy spell in a cemetery, accidentally summoning the ghost of Isaac who reinhabits his dead body. When he laments that Tarby does not see him as a friend, she suggests that he use a spell from a forbidden book to impress Tarby. When Tarby wins the election, he abandons Lewis. On his first day at his new school, Lewis meets Tarby Corrigan, who befriends him during Tarby’s campaign for class president. Despite Jonathan’s cautions, Lewis begins teaching himself magic. Isaac and Selena had apparently hidden a clock within the walls of the house before they died, and Jonathan has been trying to find the clock and discover its purpose. The house’s previous owners were a sinister warlock named Isaac Izard, (an orphaned former friend of Jonathan's who was traumatized while fighting in WWII), and his equally wicked wife Selena. Jonathan confesses that he is a warlock and Florence is a witch. Frightened, he runs away and encounters multiple household objects coming to life. Lewis begins exploring the house and stumbles upon Jonathan smashing a wall with an axe. Upon entering his new home, he meets Jonathan’s neighbor and best friend, Florence Zimmerman.ĭuring the night, Lewis is puzzled when he hears a ticking sound in the walls. All he has left of his parents is a Magic 8-Ball they had given him, and a family photograph. In 1955, after his parents are killed in a car crash, ten-year-old Lewis Barnavelt moves to live with his Uncle Jonathan in New Zebedee, Michigan.
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