"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

October 2026

“The Signal-Man” is a short ghost story by Charles Dickens, first published in December 1866 as part of the Christmas number of his magazine All the Year Round, within the collaborative railway-themed collection Mugby Junction. It is widely regarded as one of the finest Victorian...