The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 142 minutes

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What price, a parent's love? A Scottish family, seeking a quiet life, rents Brentwood House – a grand, Georgian mansion standing in wooded grounds beside a ruined keep and a deep glen – only to find themselves in a terrifying ordeal. As their son plunges further into despair, can they, as a family, keep a hold of reality? Is there a happy solution? "The Open Door" by Margaret Oliphant was originally published in 1881 as part of the collection Stories of the Seen and Unseen. Join me, Tony Walker, narrator of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast, for this week's story. 📚 You can now buy my books where you are! 😊 https://tonywalkerbooks.com/ ⭐ Join my Patreon ⭐ https://patreon.com/barcud Go here for a library of ad-free stories, a monthly members only story and early access to the regular stories I put out. You can choose to have ghost stories only, or detective stories or classic literature, or all of them for either $5 or $10 a month. Many hundreds of hours of stories. Who needs Audible? Or, if you'd just like to make a one-off gesture of thanks for my work https://buymeacoffee.com/10mn8sk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	What price a parents love? A Scottish family seeking a quiet life rents Brentwood
0:35.9	house, a grand Georgian mansion standing in wooded
0:39.6	grounds beside a ruined house and a deep glen, only to find themselves in a terrifying ordeal.
0:46.5	As their son plunges further into despair, can they as a family keep a hold of reality?
0:52.6	Is there a happy solution? The open door by Margaret
0:56.3	Oliphant was originally published in 1881 as part of the collection Stories of the
1:01.5	scene and unseen. Join me, Tony Walker, narrator of the classic ghost stories podcast
1:07.4	for this week's story. Everybody dies, don't think.
1:19.6	Everybody come back.
1:21.6	Isn't that so?
1:23.6	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you? How do that they'd come back, mother?
1:29.3	What's the secret?
1:31.3	The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant.
1:34.3	I took the house of Brentwood on my return from India in 18 for the temporary accommodation of my family until I could find a permanent home for them.
1:43.3	It had many advantages
1:45.5	which made it particularly appropriate. It was within reach of Edinburgh, and my boy Roland, whose
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