H G Wells

The Red Room H G Wells

"The Red Room" is a gothic-horror short story by the British author H. G. Wells, written in 1894 and published two years later in The Idler magazine. The story follows an unnamed young man-its narrator-as he undertakes to spend a night in the famously haunted "Red Room" of Lorraine Castle. After a terrifying night, the initially skeptical narrator concedes that the room is haunted, not by a ghost but by "Fear" itself. Wells, a major figure of turn-of-the-century British literature, is best known for sci-fi and horror novels including The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man.