A Beleaguered City

by Mrs. Oliphant

"Haunted by a sense that the living and the dead are separated by no more than a narrow and disputed borderland, the tales that Margaret Oliphant liked to call her ""stories of the seen and the unseen"" are now recognized as among the most remarkable explorations of the supernatural to appear in Victorian times. 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...