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|publisher= Doubleday | |publisher= Doubleday | ||
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| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 1993 |
| ISBN | 0-385-40301-1 |
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| RRP | {{{rrp}}} |
| Main characters | Johnny Maxwell |
| Series | Johnny Maxwell Series |
| Annotations | View |
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| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
Blurb
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learned a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were...well...alive. Particularly if they break a few rules...
Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies...
Lead Characters
The Dead
- Pvt. Tommy Atkins, last of the Blackbury Volunteers (the Pals)
- Alderman Thomas Bowler(1826-1906)
- Mr. Solomon Einstein, taxidermist and amateur physicist
- Mr. Addison Fletcher, an electronics engineer
- Mr. Eric Grimm (d.1927)
- Mrs. Sylvia Liberty (d.1914)Suffragette
- Mr. Ronald Newton (1878-1934)
- Mr. Sidney "Wrong Way" Roundway, footballing legend
- Comrade William Stickers a would have been Communist leader
- Mr. Antonio Vicente, magician and escapologist manqué
Living Characters
- Ronald Atterbury, a war hero
- Sergeant Comely, Blackbury Constabulary.
- Cllr. Ms. Ethel Liberty, a descendent.
- Jeremy the Thumb, a newspaper photographer
- Grandfather Maxwell, Johnny's grandparent
Supernatural Entities
Adaptions
Johnny and the Dead was adapted for television by London Weekend Television in 1995.
Cast
- Johnny Maxwell: Andrew Falvey
- Yo-Less: Jotham Annan
- Bigmac: Paul Child
- Wobbler: Charlie Watts
- Alderman Thomas Bowler: George Baker
- William Stickers: Brian Blessed
- Eric Grimm: Barrie Houghton
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