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In the two stories that we have read each story explores the feeling of horror and fear. We are examining how each character in each story reacts to the ghost that they encounter. In each story the characters react very different to the different types of ghost that they meet. Well’s story of the ‘The Red Room’ boasts a young, very energetic and arrogant man who thinks that it



‘Will take a very tangible ghost’



to scare him, but panics when confronted with occurrences which challenge his scientific hypothesis. On the other hand Hill’s story of the ‘Farthing House’ reveals a timid yet experienced and mature woman who does not panic because she understands and feels sympathy for the ‘crying’ ghost.



In ‘The Red Room’ the young man is on a mission to explore and expose the tale of the ‘The Red Room’ that is supposedly haunted, because he says,



‘It’s my own choosing’



He is in that house to go into ‘The Red Room’ to prove that the



‘Spiritual terrors’



of the house are nothing that cannot be proven by science. He is obviously very brave and determined but inexperienced as pointed out by the old couple that say,



‘Eight and twenty years you have lived and never seen, the likes of this house.’



This seems to be a more direct and intense approach to the ghost. On the other hand the storyteller in the ‘Farthing House’ meets the ghost accidentally. This is brought about when her assigned room had a



‘Serious leak’



and so was taken to the ‘Cedar’ room. Firstly she is happy due to the size of the room, but later when she goes upstairs to get the photographs, she hears ‘crying’ and then when she had entered the room, she got a viable...