In this essay I am going to compare the two stories The Red Room and The Signalman. I think that these two stories are a bit on the dull side as we are subjected to much more intense and more imaginative 'experiences' (novels, films, etc...), but they were probably some of the greatest stories of their time. Wells and Dickens are known for their linguistic way with words. Visualization is no problem as the authors use such descriptive words.
             The Red Room involves a young man who visits an old castle in hope of finding a ghost... Although cautioned by the three elderly inhabitants of the castle, the man chooses to proceed. "'It's of your own choosing' said the man with the withered arm once more". He travels, what seems to be a long way, down a long, dark corridor and then finally reaches the red room. The man lights candles and sets them around the room evenly to light up every inch of it. One by one the candles go out, and with every flame that vanishes, the interval, in which the next does, shortens. Whilst the candles go out, the man runs around the room trying to keep them alight. In the darkness, the man trips and is found in the morning unconscious.
             In contrast, The Signalman is about a man who arrives at a train station and befriends an old old mysterious signalman. Occasionally, the signalman would look at the bell and check the track as though it had rung. He said that he had seen a ghost telling of an accident that had happened. The Signalman could find no evidence of the accident that the ghost spoke of, but kept an eye out. A month later, there was a problem on line and the signalman was killed in the way that the ghosts had spoke of.
             n the following paragraphs i will discuss some points that will help to answer the question at hand.
             One way that authors communicate the experience of eeriness and fear is through the setting they create.
             In The Red Room, Wells creates a history to the castle which tell...