"The Signalman" by Charles Dickens and "The Red Room" by H.G.Wells are both well known examples of pre-twentieth century ghost stories and are based on the supernatural. Both these tales create suspense and tension in the atmosphere...

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"The Signalman" by Charles Dickens and "The Red Room" by H.G.Wells are both well known examples of pre-twentieth century ghost stories and are based on the supernatural. Both these tales create suspense and tension in the atmosphere around the people in the story. The stories are set in first person and we are given the thoughts and feelings of the narrator.codd ddr seddddw ordd ddk indd fodd dd.

The pace of "The Signalman" is a slow one the reader isn't given the impression that it is a ghost story but it unravels as the story goes on; this slowly builds up suspense.coga gar segagaw orga gak inga foga ga.

The atmosphere at the start of "The Signalman" is an eerie one. It is a deep, damp cutting with a dark tunnel described as 'barbarous, depressing' and with 'forbidding air' and that the little amount of light which got to this isolated signal post struck chill into the narrator. vKp2 Visit coursework ab in ab fo ab for ab more project ab Do ab not ab redistribute vKp2 

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The narrator is presented as inquisitive and practical man who when confronted with the signalman's problem tries to think of a rational reason for the signalman's sightings but soon finds out that there is no rational explanation. The signalman is a vigilant but troubled man who has been seeing a ghost, and every time he has seen it a person has died on his line. The signalman has had one more sighting and no one has died yet, this creates suspense and tension. Weber enveloped simonlovesfootball's functionalism .

However in "The Red Room" the narrator is a man who only ...

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