Signalman (Dickens)

Author: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781771960649

Binding: paperback, small format

Section: Weird Tales & Ghost Stories

Series: A Ghost Story for Christmas

Overtaken by insomnia, a gentleman wanders through a damp winter countryside - until he discovers the black mouth of a railway tunnel where he sees an ancient signal-man. Although at first unresponsive to his calls, the signal-man eventually invites him down to a lonely shack. It's there, over the course of two sleepless nights, that we learn the signal-man's horrifying secret: a shrouded figure haunts him, foretelling a catastrophe soon to befall that very stretch of the tracks.