Signalman

CHARLES DICKENS`S LAST GREAT GHOST STORY is also his most personal, inspired by a terrible accident on a train he himself was riding on. He revisited this haunting memory on the figure of a railway signalman, who hears bells ringing in his signal box when no one else does, sees a figure no one else can see... and who, following those ominous signs, always witnesses horrible incidents. `I am troubled, sir,` he cries. `I am troubled!` But what exactly is it that is troubling the signalman? ... And what does it want?