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How does Charles Dickens create suspense in "The Signalman"? The term suspense is defined to be a state of anxious uncertainty and for one to feel apprehension towards the forthcoming events. In "The Signalman" suspense is built up in different ways, including, surroundings and atmosphere, the characters, what they say and the use of the supernatural. They all have different effects, some being confusion, while some been fear but all establish suspense. It is acknowledged that suspense is the element that keeps the reader going, even more than any other element of fiction. "The Signalman" written by Charles Dickens follows the narrator while he takes a walk down the gloomy railway line and finds himself intrigued by a secluded signalman staring at the red light at the opening of the train tunnel. What compelled and inspired Charles Dickens to write this was his own experience of a train crash....

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