The Red Room is the story of an unnamed narrator exploring the title location, a red room in Castle Lorraine in the English countryside of the late 1800s. The room is known far and wide as a haunted locale, and the narrator is determined to pass the night there. The story is concerned with his struggle to keep the room lit as, one by one, his candles wink out for no apparent reason. Eventually he is knocked unconscious. The next morning he states the room is haunted by Fear itself.