“THE SIGNALMAN” BY CHARLES DICKENS (Classic Horror Story) #WeirdDarkness
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Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: I’m bringing you a classic horror story from Charles Dickens called “The Signalman”.
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| 1:25.0 | Coming up in this episode I'm bringing you a classic horror story from Charles Dickens called The Signal Man |
| 1:32.0 | The story is so popular that it's been adapted multiple times, especially on old time radio. |
| 1:39.0 | In the United States, the story was adapted for radio for the Columbia Workshop in 1937. |
| 1:45.0 | Then for the radio show The Weird Circle in 1945, Lights Out in 1946, Hall of Fantasy in 1950, Suspense in 1956, Beyond Midnight in 1970, and CBC Radio's Nightfall |
| 2:00.9 | in 1982. Suspense also had a TV adaptation in 1953 |
| 2:06.1 | starring Boris Karloff and Alan Webb. The story was adapted by Andrew Davies as |
| 2:11.6 | the BBC's Ghost Story for Christmas for 1976. |
| 2:16.4 | Elements of the Signal Man are used in Andrew Lloyd Weber's 2004 musical, The Woman in |
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