Across
- 1. Author obsessed with death and grief
- 2. Swinging instrument of torture
- 6. Ominous black bird repeating a single word
- 7. Literary style steeped in darkness
- 8. State claimed by unreliable narrators
- 11. Lost woman mourned by the narrator
- 12. Imagined sound of guilt
- 14. Underground tunnels of entombment
- 15. Animal symbolizing violence and superstition
- 16. Object of fixation and hatred
- 17. Persistent grief for the dead
- 19. Force driving confession and ruin
- 21. Personification of plague
- 23. Story of guilt revealed by sound
Down
- 1. Fear of being buried alive
- 3. Physical and moral deterioration
- 4. Double or split self
- 5. Beloved taken by death
- 9. Emotional and physical separation
- 10. Refrain spoken by the bird
- 13. Act of sealing someone alive
- 18. Central and inescapable theme
- 20. Mental unraveling mistaken for clarity
- 22. Lavish ball masking doom