In the two stories that we have read each story explores the feeling of horror and fear. We are examining how each character in each story reacts to the ghost that they encounter. In each story the characters react very different to the different types of ghost that they meet. Well’s story of the ‘The Red Room’ boasts a young, very energetic and arrogant man who thinks that it ‘Will take a very tangible ghost’ to scare him, but panics when confronted with occurrences which challenge his scientific hypothesis. On the other hand Hill’s story of the ‘Farthing House’ reveals a timid yet experienced and mature woman who does not panic because she understands and feels sympathy for the