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Which Short Horror Story do you find more Horrific? Dickens uses sophisticated vocabulary and complex sentence structure in The Signalman: "The monstrous thought came into my mind, as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man." This creates tension in The Signalman as there is lots of description and dialogue between the characters hinting to the unnatural but there is a lack of action. Dickens focuses on descriptive techniques to create detailed imagery and relies heavily on the senses of the reader being used: "there was a barbarous, depressing and forbidding air." Dickens lists adjectives in the same, dark, semantic field to emphasise the gloomy setting of the of the railroad cutting. The writing is very atmospherically and highly developed. Jacobs uses excellent language but little description in his story as he dependant on the shock and action to scare...

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