Gothic fiction: vocabulary

 

Complete this list:

Atmosphere

N:  clanking chains; crazed laughter ; doors suddenly slamming shut;  eerie (= strange, weird) sounds; gusts of wind;

 

 adj: creepy, disturbing, gloomy...



Mystery

N: devil; ghost; goblins; haunted place; magic;  omens; secret; spirits; supernatural elements; visions…

 

 

Fear, Terror or Horror...

N: agony; anguish; apprehensions; disgust; dismay; fright; horror; panic; shrieks; terror...

 

NB: it is scary/ frightening 

but a character is scared / frightened...

 

Surprise

adj: amazed; astonished; dismayed; shocked, surprised; thunderstruck...

 

Haste

adj: anxious; breathless; frantic;  

 

adv:  hastily; impatiently;precipitately; suddenly…

 

Anger

N: anger; fury; rage; resentment; temper; wrath...

 

adj: angry, furious, wrathful...

 

Largeness

adj: enormous, gigantic, giant, large, tremendous, vast…

 

 

+ the sublime

 

 

 

 

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