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The Signal-Man Dramatized
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Publisher
- Design Sound Productions
- Publish Date
- 29 July 2025
- Run Time
- 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
It is 1860. A female reporter is drawn into a railroad signal man’s haunted, frenzied hallucinations.
Are the terrors he experiences a form of insanity or a frightening shade of reality? Are his blood-curdling nightmares simply coincidence—or omens of horror to come?
This full-cast dramatization recreates Charles Dickens’s Victorian industrial world of steam trains, ephemeral music, sunsets over desolate landscapes, and figures glimpsed just beyond the embankments. Descend into the darker side of the supernatural in The Signal-Man.
Critics Review
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“With crisp sound effects and an original score, Voices In the Wind Audio Theatre delivers a nice polish and American accents to Charles Dickens’s classic 1866 story of the supernatural...A newspaper reporter, portrayed with heartfelt energy by Laura Van Veen…[A] railroad worker, dramatically voiced by John Bell…Both actors smoothly handle the nineteenth-century dialogue as the listener learns that a deadly wreck has already occurred. Are more calamities to follow?”
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Details
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Narrator
- Laura Van Veen, John Bell, a full cast
- Duration
- 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 July 2025
- ISBN
- 9798228519527
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Design Sound Productions
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
It is 1860. A female reporter is drawn into a railroad signal man’s haunted, frenzied hallucinations. Are the terrors he experiences a form of insanity or a frightening shade of reality? Are his blood-curdling nightmares simply coincidence—or omens of horror to come?This full-cast dramatization recreates Charles Dickens’s Victorian industrial world of steam trains, ephemeral music, sunsets over desolate landscapes, and figures glimpsed just beyond the embankments. Descend into the darker side of the supernatural in The Signal-Man.
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