Published in the Christmas edition of All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the result of Dickens’s collaboration with some of the leading writers of his day and contains four contributions by the author of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, including what is arguably one of his most famous stories, ‘The Signalman’ - the chilling tale of a ghost’s apparition at the entrance to a tunnel, the harbinger of fatal accidents on the line.

Varied in tone and style, the eight stories included in this volume remain as fresh today as when they first appeared in 1866, and are a testament to the brilliance of Victorian literature, as well as a further proof of the versatility and exuberance of Dickens’s genius.