The Red Room (Annotated) H.
by G. Wells
2020-04-22 16:23:11
The Red Room (Annotated) H.
by G. Wells
2020-04-22 16:23:11
This edition is annotated, with additional information about the work. It has also been formatted for your NOOK.The story begins with the narrator, who’s standing by a fire in an unknown room, confidently announcing to a couple of rather cree...
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This edition is annotated, with additional information about the work. It has also been formatted for your NOOK.The story begins with the narrator, who’s standing by a fire in an unknown room, confidently announcing to a couple of rather creepy elderly people that he’s never seen a ghost and is not easily frightened. These creepy people – a man with a withered arm and an older woman – warn the narrator ominously that he’s doing whatever it is he’s doing (we don't know the details yet) by his own choosing.The sense of foreboding increase when another even more ghoulish old man suddenly appears. This man with the shade (7) enters the room and coughs up a storm. In the midst of a tense silence, the narrator asks to be shown to the haunted room. The man with the withered arm tells him to take the candle outside the door. If the narrator wants to go to the red room on this night of all nights (16, 23), says the old man, he’ll have to go alone.
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