The Open Door (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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The Open Door (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

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  2. English
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The Open Door (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Fantasy and Horror Classics
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781447405993
eBook ISBN
9781473387539

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. A Biography of Margaret Oliphant
  6. The Open Door