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    The Red Room
    The Red Room
    The Red Room
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    The Red Room

    By H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 1, 2008
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    • 4/5
      When I began reading [The Red Room] I was unaware that is was a short story, however my Kindle soon made me aware of that fact. This story reminded me of a short story by Poe or Doyle. The "horror" was not physical, but metaphysical. A good, short read.
    • 3/5
      less a book, more a short story really.

      However, the unnamed narrator stays in an named house to check out an apparently haunted room.

      He starts out logical and confident, but during the story becomes unnerved and scared as the candles he has lit are snuffed out, individually at first and then en mass. Soon he is reduced to a wreck and changes his mind about the room.

      Excellent short story and good for a scary read
    • 5/5
      Excellent, chilling short ghost story about a haunted room. I remember reading this as a child in one of the Armada ghost story books and it is as good as ever. 5/5

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    The Red Room - H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Red Room, by H. G. Wells

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    Title: The Red Room

    Author: H. G. Wells

    Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23218]

    Last Updated: August 23, 2013

    Language: English

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    THE RED ROOM

    By H. G. Wells

    I can assure you, said I, that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me. And I stood up before the fire with my glass in my hand.

    It is your own choosing, said the man with the withered arm, and glanced at me askance.

    Eight-and-twenty years, said I, I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.

    The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open. Ay, she broke in; and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. There's a many things to see, when one's still but eight-and-twenty. She swayed her head slowly from side to side. A many things to see and sorrow for.

    I half suspected the old people were trying to enhance the spiritual terrors of their house by their droning insistence. I put down my empty glass on the table and looked about the room, and caught a glimpse of myself, abbreviated and broadened to an impossible sturdiness, in the queer old mirror at the end of the room. Well, I said, if I see anything to-night, I shall be so much the wiser. For I come to the business with an open mind.

    It's your own choosing, said the man with the withered arm once more.

    I heard the faint sound of a stick and a shambling step on the flags in the passage outside. The door creaked on its hinges as a

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