"The monstrous thought came into my mind, as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man."
A red light. A black tunnel. A waving figure. A warning beyond understanding. And the fear that someone - that something - is drawing closer...
The Signal-Man is one of the most powerful ghost stories of all time and certainly the most frightening ever written by Charles Dickens. It is paired here with The Trial for Murder, in which Dickens treats the supernatural with just as much terrifying gravity.
These tales are brought to life by James Swanton, who over the last year has played monsters in The First Omen (20th Century Studios) and Tarot (Sony) as well as the title roles in two BBC chillers: 'The Curse of the Ninth' in Inside No. 9 and Lot No. 249, Mark Gatiss's annual ghost story, for which The Telegraph called James 'the scariest man on TV this Christmas'. His work with Dickens includes sell-out seasons of the Christmas Books at the Charles Dickens Museum ('it couldn't have been more vivid!' - Miriam Margolyes) and his one-man play Sikes & Nancy at the West End's Trafalgar Studios ('startling and enthralling' - Simon Callow).
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