Gothic vocabulary bank

Words to create atmosphere Words to describe the unknown Words to describe sounds Words to describe characters

dank a figure clanking drawn/haggard

desolation/desolate/barren/ an amorphous creature crackle emaciated
bleak hazy air discordant morose
dreary/grey indistinct drip pale/pallid
festering it appeared to … groans shrunken
fog/mist/cloud/darkness opaque water high/low pitch skeletal/bony
insidious something moved howl spectral
malevolent tenebrous piercing sullen
nefarious unintelligible sound shrill thin/gaunt
ominous/menacing whispering weak
oppressive whistling
respite
shadows Words to describe emotions Words to describe actions Words to describe smells
sinister
aghast
sombre in trepidation acrid
appalled
suffocating silently musty
depressed
tragic snarl pungent
despondent
wretched stealthily rotting/festering
impatient
stumble
lugubrious
wreathe
melancholy
petrified
Words to describe taste
quailing
fetid
insipid
rancid

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