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G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Genre(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ededed;">Publication</th></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>The Red Room</b>" is a short <a href="/wiki/Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic</a> story written by <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a> in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Idler_(1892%E2%80%931911)" title="The Idler (1892–1911)">The Idler</a></i> magazine. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary">Summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Red_Room_(short_story)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A main character chooses to spend the night in an allegedly <a href="/wiki/Haunted_house" title="Haunted house">haunted</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Narrator" class="mw-redirect" title="Narrator">narrator</a> ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's vigil. </p><p>Initially confident, the narrator becomes increasingly uneasy in the room. He attempts to conquer his fear by lighting candles, but keeping the candles lit in the draughty room becomes an ongoing battle. Each time a candle is snuffed out, the narrator's fear and paranoia increases. He begins to imagine that the drafts are guided by a malevolent intelligence. As the narrator's fear intensifies, he stumbles onto a large piece of furniture (possibly the bed), and ricochets off the walls in a blind panic, hitting his head and eventually falling unconscious. The caretakers, who find him in the morning, feel vindicated when the narrator agrees that the room is haunted. They are eager to hear a description of the <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">ghost</a>, but he surprises them by explaining that there is no ghost residing in the room. 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