The Signal-Man

By Charles Dickens

"The Signal-Man" is a first-person horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens.
The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
• Release date: May 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9780880028721

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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Reviews for The Signal-Man

[Leigh · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed the story but this edition of it is rather sub-par as it includes page numbers scattered randomly throughout the text.