
The Open Door (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Margaret Oliphant(Author)
Read Books (Publisher)
Published on 28. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
76 pages
978-1-4474-0599-3 (ISBN)
Description
Not all doors lead home. Some merely echo a cry from the darkness.
Colonel Mortimer, recently returned from India, believes the grand Scottish estate of Brentwood will be the perfect place for his family to start a new, tranquil life. But the house shares its grounds with the chilling ruins of an older structure, where a single, broken gable stands a solitary wall containing a vacant, perpetually open doorway that leads to nothing but shadows.
The peace is shattered when Mortimer's sensitive young son, Roland, falls dangerously ill, tormented not by a sight, but by a sound: a pitiful, moaning cry for help that seems to issue from the ruined archway.
As the Colonel confronts the haunting, he is forced to abandon his upper-class skepticism and face a supernatural reality that defies all logic. He must investigate the desolate corner of his own property to find the source of the sorrow and, perhaps, save a tormented soul whose pleas threaten his son's sanity.
Praised by M.R. James for its mastery of "pity and beauty," The Open Door is a Victorian ghost story par excellence, using atmosphere and dread to explore the enduring themes of grief, parental love, and the permeable boundary between the living and the unseen.
The sound is just a whisper, but the terror is deafening.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alcester
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
109 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4474-0599-3 (9781447405993)
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