The Open Door (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

<p><strong>Not all doors lead home. Some merely echo a cry from the darkness.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>The sound is just a whisper but the terror is deafening.</strong></p>