The Red Room

As the visitor to Lorraine Castle tells its two elderly caretakers he does not believe in ghosts and will prove it by spending tonight in the Red Room, their parting words to him are that he is doing it... by his own choosing. He moves away, smug with confidence. But as he ascends the spiral stairs with a single candle, what he senses around him begins to fill him with a growing, unnamable fear. Once seated and awaiting a quiet night in the room, illuminated by more candles he has found and the newly lighted fireplace, a candle is abruptly extinguished. And then another. And then…