How Does Wells Build Up A Sense Of Fear In The Red Room?

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How Does Wells Build Up A Sense Of Fear In The Red Room?

The narrator opens the story by saying " it would take a very tangible ghost to scare me." This makes the narrator seem very sure about himself. He is making it clear to whom he is speaking to that it would take a very definite ghost to scare him. He is showing that he has a complete lack of belief in ghosts.

In the room with the narrator is a man with a withered arm. We are not told of his name, he is only known as 'the man with the withered arm.' A second old man entered the room, he was 'more bent and more wrinkled than the first.' He wore a shade, and the only part of his face you could see was his lips. The narrator described them as 'half averted , hung pale and pink from his decaying yellow teeth.' There was also a woman in the room whose eyes were permanently fixed to the fire which was lit in the room. Wells wants us to see the people as old and strange. They appear to be primeval and inhuman.