Ghost Stories Ghost 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 create suspense in the reader. They also explore our feelings about what happens to us when someone we love and who is important to us. Ghost stories are often linked to the time and place where a person may have had a very violent death, this can take on a symbolic meaning to link back to the dead. Because many ghost stories are hard to believe, the writer often uses various ways to help us imagine and believe them, often writing in the first person and usually including his or her own personal experiences. They can also use the buildup of tension in the story to help us explore the idea of ​​an afterlife. In The Signalman, a man (the narrator of the story) is walking next to the embankment of a railway line. He notices the signalman below him and greets him by shouting "Haloa, down there." However, the signalman does not seem to notice the man. When the man descends to converse with the signalman, he is surprised to find him strangely frightened by the words he had shouted: "Haloa, over there." We later learn that he had seen mysterious and ghostly apparitions. This shocked him, because every time this happened, terrible catastrophes occurred. The narrator, very upset by the signalman's reactions, promises that he would return to assist the signalman the next day. Upon his return, however, he discovers that the signalman had been "knocked down" by a train. At the end of the story, we finally understand that the signalman had a premonition... in the middle of a sheet of paper, such as Charles Dickens' The Signalman. I think 'The Signalman'; by Charles Dickens is the best story. It seems to have more substance and builds atmosphere more dramatically than Crossing Over. This is probably because he describes things using a greater amount of detail, as well as using words that set the mood. In this way, the atmosphere of the story is exaggerated to create tension in the readers. In contrast, the other story isn't scary, but has ghosts 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 just written to explore the idea of ​​the existence of an afterlife. However, after being written, it fell into the Ghost genre classification because it has a ghost included in the story.