The Open Door: A Ghost Story for Christmas

About Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant was a Scottish novelist and historical writer. Her fictional works encompass domestic realism the historical novel and tales of the supernatural. She wrote more than 120 works including novels books of travel and description histories and volumes of literary criticism. Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic-book series Palookaville which started in the stone age as a pamphlet and is now a semi-annual hardcover. His comics have appeared in the New York Times Magazine Best American Comics and McSweeneys Quarterly. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications including the cover of the New Yorker The Walrus and Canadian Notes & Queries. He is the subject of a recent documentary from the National Film Board of Canada Seths Dominion. Seth lives in Guelph Ontario with his wife Tania and their two cats in an old house he has named Inkwells End.