The House of Usher

3. The capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.
5. A highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor.
6. The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end.
7. A manuscript or piece of writing on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing, but traces of the original remain.
9. Characterized by a series of rapidly changing and surreal images or scenes.
11. A state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.
14. A person assisting a priest in a religious service or procession. In a more general sense, a devoted follower or attendant.
16. Dark, shadowy, or obscure.
17. Self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation.
19. Black or a deep, dark black color.
20. A narrow opening or crack, typically in rock.

1. A figment of the imagination; an illusion or ghostly apparition.
2. Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
4. A small mountain lake or pool, especially one formed by a glacier.
8. Difficult to understand or interpret; enigmatic.
10. A deep or seemingly bottomless chasm; figuratively, a vast expanse or depth.
12. A circle of light or brightness surrounding something, especially as depicted in art around the head or body of a person represented as holy.
13. A fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs spun by small spiders, seen especially in autumn.
15. A book of magic spells and invocations.
18. Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect; sensational or shocking.