Ghost Essays

The poem “Villegiature” was written by Edith Nesbit in the late 19th century. The actual word villegiature means holiday or retreat in French. “Villegiature is a short poem which is about a woman who is being haunted by her former lover. The poem mainly deals with the woman’s idealised image of the man and the […]

Wells was born in the year ‘The Signalman’ was written. Like Dickens, he was of poor parents. He went to night school to better himself to be trained as a teacher. He was lectured by T. H Huxley, the famous Darwinist (The belief in the theory of evolution) and developed a life long interest in […]

The story was written in 1992/93. The story is about a residential home. The place has quite a history through the years. The story is about a lady who is visiting her aunt who lives in the residential home.The story of ‘The Red Room’ was written quite along way back. It was written in the […]

Both ‘The red room’ by H. G. Wells and ‘Farthing house’ by Susan Hill are examples of ghost stories. But what makes a ghost story? Obviously, there has to be some sort of ghost whether it be literally a ghost or someone’s imagination, it doesn’t matter as long as there is some sort of suspense […]

Having read and analysed two short stories which both deal with the un-natural, I now intend to compare them in detail. The Red Room is a short story from the nineteenth century, which is about a man who visits a haunted house to prove that there is no ghost or anything of such a nature […]

“The Red Room” was appealing to the Victorians as it was indeed quite a short story, Reading a story in less than say an hour gave them a great sense of achievement as they started and finished quite quickly. Through reading and understanding the plot and essence of the story they would be able to […]

Two short stories titled the Red Room by H G Wells and Examination Day by Henry Slesar, have used different techniques to build up a fear and tension in their stories. The Red Room was set in the 19th century and was aimed at Victorian readers who liked ghost and mystery stories. The Red Room […]

I believe that a well-crafted ghost tale must combine action and philosophy regarding the existence and purpose of ghosts. It should feel authentic, allowing readers to recall the story and become fearful when encountering similar situations. Furthermore, exploring human nature is beneficial in depicting how even seemingly insignificant things can terrify people. Both H.G. Wells […]

Using reference to style and content I will explain how and why these two short stories are typical 19th century stories. The two short stories that we have read, ‘ The Red Room’ by H.G. Wells and ‘The Judges House’ by Bram Stoker, are heavily concerned with the supernatural world, with people in the Victorian […]

Although both these stories are based around the theme of fear, the types of fear that the characters in each story experience are quite different.’The Whole Town Is Sleeping’ is the more modern of the two stories. It was written in 1950, just after the Second World War and at the beginning of the Cold […]

The word ‘Ghost’ can be described as many things; an illusion, a spirit, a sinister supernatural hallucination, a shadow, or even a figment of your imagination. All these words resemble a part of fear.Are there Ghosts?Have you ever seen a Ghost?Your answer to ‘Are there Ghosts?’ will probably be negative or vague, but a lot […]

The three characters I have chosen are the Narrator from Charles Dickens’ “Confessions Found in a Prison, Isaac Scatchard from Wilkie Collins’ “The Ostler” and the Narrator from H.G. Wells’ “The Red Room”.In C. F.I.P (Confessions Found in a Prison) the narrator seems quite a normal man, but is driven to the murder of his […]

I think the most successful ghost story; out of ‘The Red Room’ by H. G. Wells and ‘Farthing House’ by Susan Hill is the latter. Both of the stories that we have read explore the feelings of horror and fear. In each story the characters react very different to the different types of ghost that […]

This essay is written to compare the tension between these two stories, ” The Red Room” by H G Wells and the “Farthing House” by Susan Hill. To do this differences and similarities between the stories must be compared, by looking at certain aspects of the story that effects the tension in the stories. These […]

This poem by Thom Gunn, tells a story of a man dreaming about a conversation between himself and another incarnation of himself. The other man is a red-coat and seems bloody and tortured, but he keeps on chanting ‘I regret nothing’ and some variations of it.The man arrives in a cave, and goes to sleep, […]

The Red Room, which is the pre-1914 text, is entirely set within a large country house. On the first page the house is clearly described to the reader including “a creaking door”, “a queer old mirror” as well as revolting characters with grotesque physical deformities such as “a withered arm” and “decaying yellow teeth”.Farthing House […]

Penelope Lively and H. G. Wells both wrote stories with large similarities even though they were written in completely different eras. The two main characters in ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Darkness Out There’ stories both go on stories of self-discovery and realization, although they are placed in different situations. Lively creates a character called […]

I have chosen to compare The Red Room by H. G. Wells and The Monkeys Paw written by W. W. Jacobs. In The Red Room, there isn’t a ghost but it’s about a man who is overwhelmed with fear when he spends a night in a haunted room. There isn’t a ghost in The Monkeys […]

Typically, when perusing a ghost story, one may observe that the tale transpires in a dark and secluded site, frequently during nighttime. The apparitions typically consist of individuals who have perished amidst misfortune or wrongdoing. Ghost tales commonly aim to induce fear and discomfort in readers, often by employing suspenseful tactics and gradually escalating tension […]

‘The Red Room’ by H G Wells (1896) and ‘Farthing House’ by Susan Hill (1992) are two short ghost stories written in different centuries and in different styles. Both stories have similarities and differences in different areas such as language, atmosphere and setting. I will look at these similarities and differences and analyse them, deciding […]

In 1896, H G Wells wrote ‘The Red Room’, a tale about a conceited man who visits a dilapidated house inhabited by strange elderly tenants. His purpose is to debunk the notion that the titular room is haunted. Upon arrival, he encounters an odd trio, including a man with a crooked mouth and an old […]

‘The darkness out there which I will refer to as ‘The darkness’, and the Red Room are both short stories in which fear is used to engage the reader, but fear is used in different ways in both stories. The beginning of each story starts in a very different way. The Darkness begins peacefully with […]