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•Darkness

•Ascent

•Descent

•The pursued maiden and the threat/abuse/rape/abduction.

•Physical decay, skulls, cemeteries, and other images of death; ghosts; revenge; family curse; blood and gore; torture.

•The Double/Doppelganger

•Taboos: black magic; madness; incest and other broken sexual taboos.

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- terror – doesn’t show what is happening behind the closed door. Leaves it up to the imagination of the reader.

- horror – shows us the monster, but doesn’t go to extremes.

- the gross-out – goes all the way, shows us all the gross details of death and mutilation (lemlæstelse).

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The protagonist (usually isolated)

The villain (personification of evil)

The wanderer (wanders the world in external isolation)

The damsel/maiden (pure, innocent victim of circumstances)

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A subtype of metaphor.
Ex. rain stands for sorrow

More examples:
wind, especially howling | sighs, moans, howls, eerie sounds
|rain, especially blowing | clanking chains
| doors grating on rusty hinges | gusts of wind blowing out lights
|footsteps approaching | doors suddenly slamming shut
|lights in abandoned rooms | crazed laughter
|characters trapped in a room | baying of distant dogs or wolves
|ruins of buildings  | thunder and lightning

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Murder | Death | Suicide | Ghosts | Demons
Gloomy settings |
Family secrets | Dungeons | Curses | Torture I Vampires | Spirits | Castles | Tombs | Terror

Aaand a few more:
•Damsel in distress (frequently faints in horror)

•Secret corridors, passageways, or rooms

•Ancestral curses

•Ruined castles with graveyards nearby

•Priests and monks

•Sleep, dream, death-like states

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- Medieval buildings (castles etc.)
- The Victorian Era
- Gloomy weather

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- Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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- Dracula

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- The nightmare lake

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- Quitters Inc.
- The bogeyman
- The Shining (movie)

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- The black cat