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Title: The Red Room
Author: H. G. Wells
Narrator: Cathy Dobson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-16
Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.
The Red Room is the account of the terrifying nocturnal experiences of a young man who volunteers to spend a night in the haunted red room at Lorraine Castle.
Members Reviews:
Vivid imagery
he Red Room: by H.G. Wells is a horror story about a scientific-minded man who plans to debunk the myth of a haunted room. He enters in the darkness of night, of course, and proceeds to apply the scientific method to what he sees. However, it does not go as planned.
Wells is not only a pioneer of Science Fiction, but he is the master of imagery. "A montrous shadow of him crouched upon the wall," is the description of the old man who is present as he is given the instructions on how to find the room. "There is, to my mind, something inhuman in senility, something crouching and atavistic; the human qualities seem to drop from old people insensibly day by day," is his observation of the small group of elderly persons present at the outset of his adventure. Has he misjudged them? It seems so in the light of day.
But there is more. "...the passage I was in, long and shadowy, with a film of moisture glistening on the wall, was a gaunt and cold as a thing that is dead and rigid." "...pushed open the unwilling baize-covered door and stood in the silent corridor." "...the moonlight, coming in by the great window on the grand staircase, picked out everything in vivid black shadow or reticulated silvery illumination." "My candle was a little tongue of light in the vastness of the chamber; its rays failed to pierce to the opposite end of the room, and left an ocean of dull red mystery and suggestion, sentinel shadows and watching darknesses beyond its island of light. And the stillness of desolation brooded over it all." "I stood watching the minute hand of my watch creep towards midnight."
The imagery Wells evokes is startlingly clear and vivid. You can feel the man's fear as it progresses. "The Red Room" is a short gothic horror story written in 1894, and has to be the progenitor of all horror stories to follow. It's creepy, most especially because it's told in a detailed and believable style. Wells puts you in the room itself, with its creeping darkness.
"The Red Room" is a wonderful horror story, exquisitely told, and I award it 5 out of 5 stars.
Dark, Deafening Silence.
A self-temper trying nameless young man intends to spend the night in `the great Red Room of Lorraine Castle'. He has apparently picked an ominous night, as the haggard looking bar-keeps are suggesting.
Taking his 17 candles and proceeding to the Rooms door, where the fellow before our antagonist had died, he takes his chances and enters to hunker down.
In un-sequenced bursts his candles die out until he's left in the worst environment ever: darkness, quiet, deafeningly silent darkness which makes the `Fear' palpable. Simply the worst type of thing to haunt a house.
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Title: The Red Room
Author: H. G. Wells
Narrator: Cathy Dobson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-16
Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.
The Red Room is the account of the terrifying nocturnal experiences of a young man who volunteers to spend a night in the haunted red room at Lorraine Castle.
Members Reviews:
Vivid imagery
he Red Room: by H.G. Wells is a horror story about a scientific-minded man who plans to debunk the myth of a haunted room. He enters in the darkness of night, of course, and proceeds to apply the scientific method to what he sees. However, it does not go as planned.
Wells is not only a pioneer of Science Fiction, but he is the master of imagery. "A montrous shadow of him crouched upon the wall," is the description of the old man who is present as he is given the instructions on how to find the room. "There is, to my mind, something inhuman in senility, something crouching and atavistic; the human qualities seem to drop from old people insensibly day by day," is his observation of the small group of elderly persons present at the outset of his adventure. Has he misjudged them? It seems so in the light of day.
But there is more. "...the passage I was in, long and shadowy, with a film of moisture glistening on the wall, was a gaunt and cold as a thing that is dead and rigid." "...pushed open the unwilling baize-covered door and stood in the silent corridor." "...the moonlight, coming in by the great window on the grand staircase, picked out everything in vivid black shadow or reticulated silvery illumination." "My candle was a little tongue of light in the vastness of the chamber; its rays failed to pierce to the opposite end of the room, and left an ocean of dull red mystery and suggestion, sentinel shadows and watching darknesses beyond its island of light. And the stillness of desolation brooded over it all." "I stood watching the minute hand of my watch creep towards midnight."
The imagery Wells evokes is startlingly clear and vivid. You can feel the man's fear as it progresses. "The Red Room" is a short gothic horror story written in 1894, and has to be the progenitor of all horror stories to follow. It's creepy, most especially because it's told in a detailed and believable style. Wells puts you in the room itself, with its creeping darkness.
"The Red Room" is a wonderful horror story, exquisitely told, and I award it 5 out of 5 stars.
Dark, Deafening Silence.
A self-temper trying nameless young man intends to spend the night in `the great Red Room of Lorraine Castle'. He has apparently picked an ominous night, as the haggard looking bar-keeps are suggesting.
Taking his 17 candles and proceeding to the Rooms door, where the fellow before our antagonist had died, he takes his chances and enters to hunker down.
In un-sequenced bursts his candles die out until he's left in the worst environment ever: darkness, quiet, deafeningly silent darkness which makes the `Fear' palpable. Simply the worst type of thing to haunt a house.