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 - 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...
`The Red Inn' is Honoré de Balzac's an exciting short story first published in 1831.