Gothic

Gothic

1. Horror

   • "I walked about the isle like a restless spectre"
   • "ghostly apparition"
   • "watery eyes almost the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set"
   • "filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred
   • "breathless horror and disgust"
   • "this strange and terrific story"
   • "do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?"
   • "his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath"
   • "flung by the murderer on its bridal bier"
   • "lifeless and inanimate"
   • "Oh, no mortal could support the horror of that countenance"
   • "grave worms crawling in the folds of the flannel"
   • "trembled with rage and horror"
   • "stretched on the grass livid and motionless"
   • "workshop of filthy creation"
   • "I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay"
   • "Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life"

2. Terror

   • "frightful dreams"
   • "frightened me into silence"
   • "every sound terrified me"
   • "I heard a shrill and dreadful scream"
   • "I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs"
   • "suspense is a thousand times worse than the most horrible event"
   • "I shall be with you on your wedding night"
   • "advancing towards me with superhuman speed"
   • "dreading a thousand nameless evils"
   • "I was terrified, when I viewed myself in a transparent pool"

3. Sublime

   • "a serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy"
   • "a cold wind played on my cheeks which braced my nerves and filled me with delight"
   • "filled me a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul"
   • "country of eternal light"
   • "sublime and magnificent scenes"
   • "solemn silence of this glorious presence - chamber of imperial nature"
   • "elevating his soul from earth"