Compare and contrast of The Red Room by H.G.Wells and Farthing House By Susan Hill, whilst considering how each of the stories lend themselves to the Ghost genre.

Before beginning to read the stories, it is interesting to look at their titles. The Red Room is an interesting title and makes us wonder about the room. Red is makes us think of danger and blood and evil. The title Farthing House, suggests that this story is set in a large old, manor house. The idea of a haunted house was in lots of the stories we read.

The Red Room is set in a large old house called Lorraine castle. The house I has a castle theme. This makes it more spooky.

The house in Farthing House is a house that's also very old. In the hallway are many antiques. Like the Red Room, Farthing House is a building that has a past

The atmosphere is eerie in the Red Room 'The long, draughty, subterranean passage was chilly and dusty' it is a cold, dark, unhomely place

'The echoes ran up and down the spiral staircase, and a shadow came sweeping up after me.' It is spooky.

Although all of these stories are ghost stories, each story is a different ghost story. . characters find themselves in haunted rooms but they act differently.