The red room

[archhippy]

Hi i was sitting in on an english retake class this morning and they were discussing a book with a man with a withered arm a man with a cough limp bad eyes and uses a crutch a duchess who dont live there and a massivly big haunting in a room which has been christened the red room.something yto do with a pratical joke that went very wrong can u help at all i think the authors name was wells.Ta very much.

[LeMarchand]

Sounds a little like Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast".

[Cetti]

There's something here called 'The Red Room' by HG Wells.

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