A prolific writer with many novels to her name, Margaret Oliphant could produce her few supernatural tales 'only when they came to me'. And they came with the twilight uncertainties and the philosophical depth of 'The Library Window', or with the extraordinary vision of purgatory...
Best known today for her Chronicles of Carlingford series of novels, Margaret Oliphant also wrote some of the best supernatural stories in the English language. In addition to the title work, this volume contains the stories "Open Door," "Old Lady Mary," "The Land of Darkness,"...