Time to visit the Michigan town that's home to a 'House With a Clock in Its Walls'
almost 7 years in Chicago Tribune
Long before Harry Potter cast a collective spell with his wizardly ways, a chubby Midwest kid who dabbled in magic was fending off evil in the fictional town of New Zebedee, Mich. His name is Lewis Barnavelt, the lovably nerdy protagonist in a series of gothic mysteries that debuted in 1973 with...