The Signal-Man

author:Charles Dickens
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Book description:Overtaken by insomnia, a gentleman wanders through a damp winter countryside - until he discovers the black mouth of a railway tunnel. To his amazement, deep in the gorge before the tunnel, 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. Has the signal-man lost his mind in the solitary dark of his profession? Or does he see the phantom of his own grizzly fate?
Charles Dickens's Other books:A Tale of Two Cities / The Wreck of the Golden Mary / The Cricket on the Hearth / The Chimes / The Seven Poor Travellers / Sunday Under Three Heads / The Perils of Certain English Prisoners / Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy / Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings / Mugby Junction /