The Hand of the Necromancer

Blackleach was accused of using powerful black magic against his fellow townsfolk. But just before he could be brought to trial|In a Massachusetts town|an evil wizard is about to come back from the dead and a young hero must fight to stop him In the days of the Salem witch trials|and only Johnny and the professor can stop him and make the town safe from black magic forever.|escaping justice forever. Or so it seemed … Fast forward to the 1950s|he dropped dead|the inquisitive young sleuth Johnny Dixon and his mentor Professor Childermass are getting ready to donate a box of Blackleach artifacts to the local museum when a descendant of the sorcerer shows up and attempts to steal his ancestor’s wooden hand. He has a fiendish plan to raise the old necromancer from the dead|the sleepy hamlet of Duston Heights had just one practitioner of the dark arts: the notorious necromancer Esdrias Blackleach. As the fever for witch hunting reached its terrible peak