Ghosts

Ghost stories and books prominently featuring spirits of the dead, a favourite category of Hargrave’s.










The Open Door and Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen


19th Century

It’s surprising that her name seems mostly lost to time — like the grand majority female writers of the Victorian era. What makes it more of a tragedy in Oliphant’s case is that her work is quite good — even better than a lot of writers whose names I’ve seen on the more mainstream ghost story anthologies.