Cover of The Red Room by H. G. Wells Audiobook The Red Room
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The Red Room

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
21 minutes
ISBN
9781787369832
Published
23 April 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • haunted room
  • psychological horror
  • supernatural
  • darkness
  • fear
  • skepticism
  • candlelight
  • gothic castle
  • terror
  • human psyche

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Description

A sceptical young man takes candles into the haunted red room at Lorraine Castle to prove fear is only psychology, until the lights die one by one. Wells's tale of terror rising from the mind itself. Spoken as when the room stays empty and still somehow refuses to let you breathe.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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