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Johnny Dixon Books in Order

Johnny Dixon contains 13 books, published between 1983 and 2022. The first book is The Curse of the Blue Figurine (1983) and the newest is The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1983–2022
Pages on record
1,037 in 7 of 13 books
Reading time
17–26 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,037 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Johnny Dixon is the title character of a children's mystery and horror series of 13 books published between 1983 and 2022. Recorded subjects include magic, the supernatural, detective and mystery stories, and robots. Brad Strickland is credited on five books and John Bellairs on two. The Curse of the Blue Figurine (1983) opens the run, followed by The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt (1983) and The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull (1984). The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows (2022) is the most recent entry.

How many Johnny Dixon books are there?

Johnny Dixon has 13 books, released between 1983 and 2022.

Johnny Dixon Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Johnny Dixon books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost by John Bellairs, book 4 of the Johnny Dixon series (1985)
  2. Cover of The Eyes of the Killer Robot, book 5 of the Johnny Dixon series (1986)
  3. Cover of The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie by Brad Strickland, book 9 of the Johnny Dixon series (1994)
  4. Cover of The Hand of the Necromancer by Brad Strickland, book 10 of the Johnny Dixon series (1996)
  5. Cover of The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder by Brad Strickland, book 11 of the Johnny Dixon series (1997)
  6. Cover of The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost by Brad Strickland, book 12 of the Johnny Dixon series (1999)
  1. 1
    The Curse of the Blue Figurine1983 · 150 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983150
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  2. 2
    The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt1983 · confirmed 1/4
    1983–
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  3. 3
    The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984–
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  4. 4
    The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost1985 · confirmed 1/4
    1985–
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  5. 5
    The Eyes of the Killer Robot1986 · 138 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986138
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  6. 6
    The Trolley to Yesterday1989 · confirmed 1/4
    1989–
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  7. 7
    The Chessmen of Doom1989 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989128
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  8. 8
    The Secret of the Underground Room1990 · confirmed 1/4
    1990–
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  9. 9
    The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie1994 · 130 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994130
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  10. 10
    The Hand of the Necromancer1996 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996176
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  11. 11
    The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder1997 · 149 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997149
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  12. 12
    The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost1999 · 166 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999166
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  13. 13
    The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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Where to start with Johnny Dixon

Start with The Curse of the Blue Figurine (1983), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Johnny Dixon book?

The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows (2022) is the newest Johnny Dixon book released so far.

Is there a new Johnny Dixon book coming?

No next Johnny Dixon book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Johnny Dixon at a glance

Paused
No new Johnny Dixon title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Johnny Dixon books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,037 pages across the 7 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 149 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Johnny Dixon books, 7 of 13, were published in the 1980s.
Attribution
Of the 13 titles, 5 are credited to Brad Strickland and 2 to John Bellairs. 6 titles carry no credit.

What the Johnny Dixon books are about

11 of the 13 Johnny Dixon books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 9 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.