The Red Room [short story]

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

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

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.

I didn't realize this was a short story when I selected it. And it is indeed a short - very short - story. And three days later, I can't even remember what it was about, only that I felt unsatisfied when I finished it. Sorry, H.G., this one fell flat for me!




Near Snyder, Texas
Kindle Cloud
January 2021

Stars for the beautiful writing, story itself felt meh.