Lewis redeems himself in the end and destroys Mrs. Izard, the house's former occupant, from her tomb. Zimmerman, the cookie-baking witch next door, Jonathan amuses his nephew with an eclipse of the moon and other frivolous pastimes-but the uncanny happenings become more sinister when Lewis himself, to impress a friend, manages to summon malignant Mrs. Gorey's creepy-cozy drawings accurately project the ambience of the big old house in tiny New Zebedee, Michigan, where ten year-old Lewis, newly orphaned by an auto accident, goes to live with his benign and rather seedy warlock uncle Jonathan.
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