![]() The house's previous owner is a sinister warlock named Isaac Izard and his equally wicked wife Selena. He reveals to Lewis that he is a practicing warlock and that Florence is a witch. Jonathan is then forced to explain himself and tell Lewis the truth about magic being involved in the house. Lewis runs away freaked out and sees the windows, piano, and a "pet chair" named Chairy among other things coming to life. Lewis then gets up and goes around the house in the dark and finds several creepy-looking dolls and Jonathan smashing a wall with an ax. Barnavelt also tells Lewis that he must find a book and then a key. At night, Lewis thinks he is dreaming seeing his mother who tells him that Jonathan is hiding something from him and that the ticking sound he hears is real. The other kids think Lewis is weird for wearing goggles, which he based off his favorite TV hero, Captain Midnight. On his first day of his new school, he meets Tarby Corrigan, who is being friendly with him just so he can get voted class president. ![]() Lewis tries to sleep that night, only to be kept up by what sounds like a faint ticking noise and notices Jonathan trying to find it. All Lewis has left of his parents is a Magic 8-Ball that they gave him before the car crash. Upon arriving at Jonathan's home, Lewis meets Jonathan's neighbor and best friend, Florence Zimmerman, with whom he trades playful insults. In 1955, ten-year-old Lewis Barnavelt goes to New Zebedee, Michigan to live with his uncle Jonathan after Lewis' parents are killed in a car crash. ![]()
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