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The story was read aloud on the podcast by Josh and Chuck, and the overall message is that the story is about the power of fear that becomes a reality.
And that's what we're going to read now. It's called The Red Room.
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The story was read aloud on the podcast by Josh and Chuck, and the overall message is that the story is about the power of fear that becomes a reality.
And that's what we're going to read now. It's called The Red Room.
All right, so like a lot of these stories you get a little bit of a vague setup and then they sort of dole out what's happening yeah as it goes on pretty much what he's doing here I would say yeah so you got this guy he's going to this castle now right where the person before him that went to sort of ghost investigate through him sounds like he threw himself down the stairs and took his life right with madness I think he I get the impression he was trying to get the heck out of that room and died running falling down the stairs maybe okay either one and then this whole thing was was haunted though by a woman and do I gather that her husband used to like kiddingly frighten her and that led to a death that's what I took it as yeah okay not a nice guy don't do that guys no it wasn't just I'm sure he regretted it pretty deeply afterward if he was even halfway decent right are you taking over now uh yeah that feels like a switcheroo me I think so too all right so this guy's in this room now finally he's all set to go here we go.
and it was not only palpable darkness but intolerable terror candle fell from my hands I flung out my arms in a vain effort to thrust that ponderous blackness away from me and lifting up my voice screamed with all of my might once twice thrice then I think I must have staggered to my feet I know I thought suddenly of the moonlit corridor with my head bowed and my arms over my face made a stumbling run for the door but I had forgotten the exact position of the door and I struck myself heavily against the corner of the bed I staggered back turned and was either struck or struck myself against some other bulky furnishing I have a vague memory of battering myself thus to and fro in the darkness of a heavy blow at last upon my forehead of a horrible sensation of falling that lasted an age of my last frantic effort to keep my footing and then I remember no more.
I knew that was it a power of darkness is he Sean Connery I think so Sean Connery and James Earl Jones had a baby in this guy's it a power of darkness to put such a curse upon a home it lurks there always you can feel it even in the daytime even of a bright summer's day summer's day in the hangings in the curtains keeping behind you however you face about in the dusk it creeps in the corridor and follows you so that you dare not turn it is even as you say fear itself is in that room black fear and there it will be so long as this house of sin endures.