Examine the settings and characters which the writers have chosen for their stories in 'The Signalman', 'The Man With The Twisted Lip' and 'The Red Room'. Consider the effects that each writer has created and how they contribute to atmosphere.

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Examine the settings and characters which the writers have chosen for their stories in 'The Signalman', 'The Man With The Twisted Lip' and 'The Red Room'. Consider the effects that each writer has created and how they contribute to atmosphere.

'The Signalman' was first published in 1865, written by Charles Dickens, 'The Man with The Twisted Lip', by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published in 1891 and 'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells was published in 1894. These are three stories, which create tense atmospheres. The Signalman was written nearly thirty years previous to the other two stories, society moved on so much through innovation and invention during this time that the stories were written in very different eras.

Charles Dickens was influenced in his story, 'The Signalman' by a train crash, which he had been involved in just a year previous to writing the story. As the railway was a relatively new invention at the time, the story was modern and contemporary at the time of press. However today's readers are given a very historical context view with references to steam trains and old signal boxes being permanently, manually operated. In 'The