roan-red

Updated: May 23, 2025

"While lying in this state, strange to say; without at first a suspicion of anything supernatural, on a sudden I saw an old man, rather stout and square, in a sort of roan-red dressing-gown, and with a black cap on his head, moving stiffly and slowly in a diagonal direction, from the recess, across the floor of the bedroom, passing my bed at the foot, and entering the lumber-closet at the left.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1