‘THE SIGNALMAN’ AND ‘THE RED ROOM’ ARE BOTH WELL KNOWN EXAMPLES OF 19TH CENRURY GHOST STORIES.WRITE A CRITAICAL COMPARISON OF THE TWO

‘THE SIGNALMAN’ AND ‘THE RED ROOM’ ARE BOTH WELL KNOWN EXAMPLES OF 19TH CENRURY GHOST STORIES.WRITE A CRITAICAL COMPARISON OF THE TWO

Both of these stories feature typical 19-century ghost story characteristics in how they are both set in dank eerie settings, seemingly cut off from the outside world. The Red Room’ is a story about a man who spends a night in a supposedly haunted castle, which is inhabited by disfigured OAPs. ‘The Signalman’ is a story of a signalman who works in an isolated railway cutting, who experiences ghost sightings.
At the beginning of the ‘Red Room’, the young narrator is playing the role of a very confident and secure person. As the story unfolds, it is clear that the narrator’s assurance and confidence seem to perish. In the opening of the story he speaks as though he does not believe in any of the tales or myths he had been told about the ‘Red Room’ and keeps a very calm and cool voice: “It will take a very tangible ghost ...