He tells EW, Its like they have one set.

They keep walking in and out of the set.

Its just so bad.

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It established rules that I carried with me intoSupernatural, he explains.

The term that came up out ofSupernaturalwas it all has to be Google-worthy.

Then there was the tone.

So I would sayClockdidnt inspire any specific storyline as much as it inspired the entire show.

It was never Kripkes intention to pull too many specifics fromThe House With a Clock in Its WallsforSupernaturalanyway.

That was about the context of it just a 10-year-old boys letter.

He wrote me back.

It wasnt anything big.

Its old, it came out in 1979.

Best, John Bellairs.

It was a nothing letter, but no one famous had ever written me anything in their lives.