The Signalman: A Ghost Story

Author(s): Charles Dickens

Horror & Ghost stories | Classics

On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent. The train plunged down a bank into a dry river bed, killing ten passengers, and badly wounding forty. Dickens was profoundly affected by the disaster, and a year later, he published The Signalman, a supremely atmospheric ghost story in which the narrator, while investigating a dank and lonely railway cutting, meets the signalman who lives there. His new acquaintance appears to live under the shadow of an unbearable secret, haunted by an apparition whose appearance prefigures terrible rail accidents. Drawing on Dickens own experiences, and introduced by Simon Bradley, author of The Railways, The Signalman is both an important piece of rail history, and a sinister tale which will make you think twice next time you enter the quiet carriage.

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A classic ghost story by Charles Dickens, introduced by Simon Bradley, author of The Railways

Simon Bradley is editor of the world famous Buildings of England series, founded by Nikolaus Pevsner, to which he has contributed a number of notable revised volumes. He started trainspotting at the age of eleven and his enthusiasm for railways has proved remarkably enduring. He is the author of St Pancras Station (Profile), and lives in London.

General Fields

  • : 9781781255919
  • : Profile Books Ltd
  • : Profile Books Ltd
  • : August 2015
  • : 150mm X 96mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 64
  • : very good
  • : 823.8
  • : English
  • : 1511
  • : Paperback
  • : Charles Dickens