The Red Room is a short story written by H.G.Wells. The story deals with the internal human conflict between rationality
and the irrarational fear of the unknown.
The story is about an unnamed
narrator who decides to spend a night in an
haunted castle. The narrator wants to sleep in a room said to be haunted so that he can prove that the legends sorrounding it are false. The three infirm elderly people who lives in that castle warns him to not sleep in that room but he insists and enter in it.
In the room, he starts seeing things, a fear soon sorrounds his mind and a series of events drives him into an outright panic. He begins to thrash at perceived phantoms untill he hits himself on the head and falls unconscious.
The next morning, the three elder people awoke him in the room. When they attempt to relate local myths to explain the haunting, the narrator responds that it was merely his "fear" that caused his reaction.