How does the author keep the reader gripped in "The Red Room" by H.G.Wells.

In 'The Red Room' the author keeps the reader gripped by involving the reader with the narrator's moods, atmospheres and senses that they share with the reader as well as contrasting settings and including unexpected happenings or settings that are unknown to the reader. A first example of this is when the author writes " I caught a glimpse of myself, abbreviated and broadened to an impossible sturdiness in the queer old mirror" This gives the …

…imagination. All the setting choices were good as they involved the reader and made them want to solve the mystery of the castle and fulfil their curiosity causing them gripped to the story. The setting choices were also good as they meant that they involved the readers senses making the story feel real and as the descriptions created good imagery it all causes tension build up and creates unexpected happenings at just the right time.