Hg Wells The Red Room

The Red Room is a 'spine chiller' written by H.G Wells. The story is set at Lorraine Castle where a specific room is preoccupied by ghastly spirits. This story The Red Room is about a man (narrator) who seeks spirits inside Lorraine Castle, with his only protection as his revolver. The spirit welcomes the man in an uncomfortable manner, moving furniture, candles going out without smoke and other procedures which the spirit posses. His excuse for the cause of this terror is that ghosts are not inquisitive in this room but is this man's nature (fear) itself that is broader.

Already this has begun where effectively you contrast imagery and excitement, making the story feel haunted and more 'spine chilling'. These contrasts of images appear suddenly
The way this makes the narrator to become more significant is the change of character. At the beginning of the story the man (narrator) represents himself as a calm and still person. The way that the narrator has expressed this is 'that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me'. This characteristic soon changes where he starts to hallucinate becoming superstitious of the ghastly happenings that occur around him before he enters the red room. '...darkness closed upon me like the shutting of an eye, wrapped about me in a stifling embrace sealed my vision'. Again the man shows another change towards his attitude in which he expresses his outer fear, talking broader, louder than he is
Other than imagery and description that he is withered and old there is a sign of repetition. The quote above 'Its you own choosing' replicates, the withered man repeats this throughout the story, also this points to the audience a phrase that replicates in their minds.

Another character the old woman, again a person who has past her age in living both by her appearance and her attitude. The description of her pale eyes indicates that death is not far away spending most of her time staring at the fire.

'This nights of all nights'

The quote above is a repetition explaining about that tonight something will happen which has never occurred before for some time. This also shows that the old woman could be either very superstitious or indeed psychic, predicting the future of tonight that something will happen.

The further character in the story is another man but older and is described in more detail than the other characters in the story. These include a crutch that held him steadily, and eyes that were small, bright, and inflamed.

'A monstrous shadow of him crouched upon the wall and mocked his action as he poured and