Frances Hodgson Burnett 44 min read

In the airless heat of a cramped tenement, the child Judith is drawn again and again to a mysterious closed room upstairs, and to the little girl who waits there to play.

Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1904 novella, by the author of 'The Secret Garden,' is a tender, haunting fantasy of childhood and the beyond. Delicate, moving, quietly supernatural. Read it for a beautiful, wistful ghost story about friendship, imagination, and a door that should not open.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

44 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).