After reading the story, I was thinking of the ending and had my ideas but decided to Google and Wikipedia to get a run down | Three authors I'll never get tired of reading are HG Wells, Charles Dickens, and William Shakespeare |
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Very scary, I'm glad I didn't read this before bed | The repetition that the three elders use to set the scene is some of the most unsettling dialogue in English |
" The Red Room is a short ghost story by H G Wells.
4One of the things I really liked about this book apart from it only taking 24 minutes to get through is the horror is all or maybe almost all psychological | Fortunately, I'm really good at the whole sleeping thing, so I fell asleep quickly |
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I listened to a reading of this on the SFF Audio podcast | Classic Gothic Horror - or maybe a subversion of the genre |
It really freaked me out.
17I didn't realize this was a short story when I selected it | The three old people who are the custodians of the place tell him not to go up there on that night, but he ignores them |
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To view it, The events of the story and the description seem to suggest the supernatural, however, the story ends with condemning ghosts and saying all of its events are manifestations of fear | "A montrous shadow of him crouched upon the wall," is the description of the old man who is present as he is given the instructions on how to find the room |
I think I was at a stage when I was about to wake up, but I couldn't move or fully open my eyes.