The Red Room The Supernatural Quotes

When the narrator says this, it sounds as if he’s recanted on his skepticism, and now believes in ghosts after all. Of course, shortly afterwards he changes the meaning of what he says by specifying that the room is haunted by fear, and not by a ghost. That seems to answer the question of whether there’s anything supernatural in the story (especially since the man with the shades agrees with him). But how does the narrator really know that? He still hasn’t explained how the rather improbable thing with the candles happened.