The Darkroom (short story)

The short story "The Darkroom" by Sadegh Hedayat, which according to Wikisource was first published in Tehran in 1321 SH (1942) with seven other stories in the collection "Sag-e Velgard" (The Stray Dog). On a night journey, in Khansar, the narrator goes to the house of a solitary, silent fellow traveller who has built a dark, red room for his seclusion; in the morning he finds him lifeless, curled up like a child in the womb.