Ghost StoriesGhost stories help us explore the idea of ​​an afterlife, focusing primarily on death and dying. These stories usually use our fear of death and what happens when we die to create an atmospheric scene and build suspense in the reader. They also explore our feelings about what happens to us when someone we love and is important to us. Ghost stories are often linked to the time and place where a person may have experienced a very violent death, this can take on a symbolic meaning of returning to the dead. As many ghost stories are hard to believe, the writer often uses a variety of ways to help us imagine and believe them by often writing in the first person and usually including their own personal experiences. They can also use the build-up of tension in the story to help us explore the idea of ​​an afterlife. In The Signalman, a man (the narrator of the story) walks along a railway embankment. He notices the signalman below him and greets him, shouting "Haloa, down there." However, the signalman does not seem to notice the man. When the man goes down to converse with the signalman, he is surprised to find him strangely frightened by the words he shouted, "Haloa, down there." We later learn that he had seen mysterious, ghostly apparitions. This had shocked him, because every time this happened, terrible disasters occurred. The narrator, very disturbed by the signalman's reactions, promises that he will return to assist him the next day. But on his return, he discovers that the signalman has been “shot” by a train. At the end of the story, we finally understand that the signalman had seen a premonition...... middle of paper ......ies, like The Signalman by Charles Dickens. I think 'The Signalman'; by Charles Dickens is the best story. It seems to have more substance and creates the atmosphere of Crossing Over in a more dramatic way. This is probably because he describes things using a greater amount of detail, as well as using words that create atmosphere. By doing this, the atmosphere of the story is exaggerated to create tension in the readers. Unlike that, the other story isn't scary, but has a ghost for a different reason. As I said before, I don't think the story was written to be a ghost story or to scare people. Instead, it was probably written solely to explore the ideas of the existence of an afterlife. However, after being written, it fell into the Ghost genre classification because it contains a ghost in the story..