Dinner party in Paris. A guest called Hermann starts to tell a story; a story about two French doctors who traveled to Andernach in Germany in 1799. The men decided to stay in a guesthouse called Red Inn â without realizing that the name of the place might have been an omen about the terrifying things that were ought to happen there that very night...
âThe Red Innâ is HonorĂ© de Balzacâs an exciting short story first published in 1831.
HonorĂ© de Balzac (1799â1850) was a French writer. He was born in Tours, but moved to Paris when he was a teenager. The best known works of his include âFather Goriotâ and âCousin Betteâ. Balzacâs writing style is realistic, and he also wrote plays. Besides writing he worked as a journalist and critic.