Victorian short stories

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Victorian short stories

The signalman/ The monkey’s paw

The Victorian ghost stories were quiet short, no less than about 7 pages; this means they have little detail. The Victorians loved super natural stories. They loved ghosts and other scary things. Over the Victorian times many more people could begin to read and the printing press evolved, it became more popular in the later Victorian times.

The signalman was written in the later Victorian times by Charles Dickens, it was set at a signal box next to a train track near a dark spooky tunnel. In a nutshell the signal man is a short Victorian story about a man (narrator) visits a signalman, the signal man gets visits from a ghost, the signalman tells the man about these mysterious visits and how when he sees the ghost there is always and accident ending in death, at the end the signalman sees the ghost at the end of the tunnel, he runs over, the train sounds its horns and driver makes as much noise as he can and covers his face and waves with his hands, the signalman gets hit by the train and dies.

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The monkeys paw was written in the late Victorian times, 1902. It is set in a warm cottage in the middle of winter, the owner of the homes friend (the sergeant) comes round, he gives him the mystical monkeys paw, his father wishes for £200, the next day while his son is at work a man from his sons company pays a visit he says that his son has been killed in an accident and gives him £200 as compensation is this just a coincidence or does the monkeys paw really work, after the funeral the mother wishes for ...

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