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Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : Sutton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Ghost stories, English |
ISBN | : 9780862998585 |
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A collection of ghost stories by Charles Dickens from the POCKET CLASSICS series. Includes THE SIGNALMAN, THE HAUNTED MAN, THE STORY OF THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON, and THE HANGED MAN'S BRIDE.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515105213 |
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Filled with fresh illustrations and illuminating commentary on each story, this collection of Dickens' best ghost stories is a unique and fascinating study of Britain's first great supernatural master. The defining writer of the Victorian Age, Charles Dickens rattled Western society with his dauntless progressivism and his acidic social realism. His ghost stories, too, left a deep impression on the collective imagination of his readers. Often darkly humorous, sometimes thoughtfully allegorical, at times psychologically complex, and in the best cases existentially disturbing, Dickens' specters - from the purgatorial Jacob Marley to the signalman's faceless tormentor - are richly diverse. This illustrated collection contains critical thoughts on each story, and illuminating annotations to four of Dickens' most masterful, complex, and confusing tales: "To Be Read at Dusk," "The Signal-Man," "The Trial for Murder," and the excerpt "Marley's Ghost." Easily read either at Christmas Eve or Hallowe'en, this versatile collection neatly presents a beautiful survey of Dickens' best and most haunting spook tales.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Short stories, English |
ISBN | : 9780862991524 |
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Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
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ISBN | : |
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"""The Signal-Man"" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.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.The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death"
Author | : The Signal-Man Illustrated Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2020-01-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781659023404 |
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"""The Signal-Man"" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.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.The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death"
Author | : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2014-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781501066092 |
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Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.
Author | : Penny Dolan |
Publisher | : Collins |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09 |
Genre | : Children's stories, English |
ISBN | : 9780008127800 |
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Two of Charles Dickens' ghost stories retold: The signalman and The portrait painter.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2018-10-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781728720593 |
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The Signal-Man (+Biography and Bibliography) (Glossy Cover Finish): The story begins with the narrator calling "Halloa! Below there!" into a railway cutting. The signalman standing on the railway below does not look up, as the narrator expects, but rather turns about and stares into the railway tunnel that is his responsibility to monitor. The narrator calls down again and asks permission to descend. The signalman seems reluctant.The railway hole is a cold, gloomy, and lonely place. The signalman still seems to be in fear of the narrator, who tries to put him at ease. The signalman feels that he had seen the narrator before, but the narrator assures him that this is impossible. Reassured, the signalman welcomes the newcomer into his little cabin and the two men speak of the signalman's work. His labour consists of a dull monotonous routine, but the signalman feels he deserves nothing better, as he wasted his academic opportunities when he was young. The narrator describes that the signalman seems like a dutiful employee at all times, except when he twice looks at his signal bell when it's not ringing. There seems to be something troubling the signal man, but he will not speak of it. Before the narrator leaves, the signal man asks of him not to call for him when he's back on the top of the hill or when he sees him the following day.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
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