A weary traveller called Barbox Brothers steps off his train at a windy junction and decides not to go on. Exploring the lines that branch from Mugby, he gathers the stories that make up this 1866 Christmas collection, among them ‘The Signal-Man’, with further branch-line tales by Amelia Edwards, Hesba Stretton, Charles Collins and Andrew Halliday.
Railway-age storytelling with one of the most celebrated ghost stories in English at its centre. Download the free EPUB.