[TOMT] [BOOK] A Classic Literature Book, with horror, ghosts, a train and more

Hi everyone,

I have searched endlessly for this book to no avail so this is my last resort! For context, I am in Scotland and I read this book in my school librbary when I was bout 12 or 13 – which is around 15 years ago, so I read this book in 2010ish. It was marked with a red sticker which in my school meant it was advanced reading or subject matter, and so I maybe shouldn’t have had it at all!

I believe the main character was a young boy and I remember that he goes down into a basement or another room of the his house when the door is locked behind him and he cannot get out due to haunting/malevolent presesnce. I think the room was set on fire, and the big heavy door falls down on top of him, crushing him – but quickly after that event everything is returned to normal and he is unharmed, able to leave the basement/room.

Another scene I remember is the boy is on a train, and the train fills with smoke or some sort of fog as he steps on and there appears to be a ghost in carriage, of a similar age as him (maybe even an evil version of himself?) – he saw or thought he saw the ghost before getting on the train but paid no mind to it before the fog appeared.

The tone of the book was horror, similar to that of Turn of the Screw. Addiotional physical details is that I think the book looked old and dark brown leather (a bit like around the world in 80 days if you’ve ever had the leather bound version of that book) but again that might not be true and I may be misremembering, I believe it was from the late 1800s or early 1900s and similar tone to Henry James.