Three Ghost Stories

The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possession, and the gloom of the house was most depressing.

These are the first Dickens texts I've read now after reading the infamous classic Christmas Carol last year, which I enjoyed decently enough. I felt like giving other spooky works of his a shot as well to see what else this classic author has to offer besides one of his big titles.

Unfortunately, this little collection of short stories didn't really click with me and I only really enjoyed one of the three stories.
The first story of the haunted house confused me a bit because I didn't know that Dicken' text was only a small part of a bigger project that had authors add their own stories to this collective haunted house concept.
The second story about the murder trial had a decent idea but didn't really come across very well for me.
But the final story of the Signal-Man managed to build up a decent atmosphere and I found the titular character actually fairly intriguing. The ending is of course rather predictable, which also stems from its age, but I still found it to be a rather comfortable read.

Even throughout the stories I didn't care much for, there were individual paragraphs that I really enjoyed, like the opening quote I chose. Dickens has a great way with words sometimes. But he also likes to go on tangents and generally I felt like the writing style of the first two stories in particular didn't quite age as well as it did with Christmas Carol.