The Open Door and the Portrait

Name: The Open Door and the Portrait
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781836102786

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
ISBN: 9781836102786
Published: 20 March 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

supernatural mystery
haunted ruins
ghostly voices
family dynamics
psychological tension
rural Scotland
childhood sensitivity
paranormal experiences
emotional conflict
eerie atmosphere

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At Brentwood near Edinburgh, Colonel Mortimer’s sensitive son Roland hears a haunting cry from ruined walls that will not leave him alone. Fear and compassion pull the household into a mystery of unseen forces, paired with a second tale of a painted face that unsettles the living. Two Scottish ghost stories where grief knocks at night and asks, with terrible patience, to be let in.

Author

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was a Scottish novelist who wrote as if the rent depended on it — because it often did. Widowed young, she supported a large household with novels, biographies, reviews, and stories of the seen and unseen, becoming one of the Victorian age's most tireless professionals. Domestic realism, historical fiction, and ghostly tales all came from the same steady pen.

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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781836103301