The Red Room by H.G. Wells is about a man who chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, colored bright red in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the young man ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's vigil. Excerpt: "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 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 are 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."

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The Red Room

Ever since a harmless prank incurred terrible consequences, the Red Room in Lorraine Castle has been considered haunted by supernatural forces. And, tonight, the most dangerous night of all, a man will challenge the local superstitions to prove that this room, where others have died, holds no ghost. Could it be all a myth surrounded by unrelated coincidences? Or is this place, in fact, under the control of a force more powerful and dangerous than anything a human can stand?

"The Red Room" is a short Gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of The Idler magazine.An unnamed protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, coloured bright red in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's vigil.