Across
- 2. an underground passageway that historically could be used for purposes such as burying the dead, shelter during times of war, and meetings of secret societies
- 4. belonging to, or characteristic of, the Middle Ages
- 5. the antagonist of a story, typically shown as evil, malicious, greedy, lustful, and otherwise against the forces of good
- 7. gloom, depression, dejection, mournfulness
- 9. describes phenomena or beings that are “outside the laws of nature” and not produced by mortals or science
- 10. indicating ill fortune or trouble, unfavorable
Down
- 1. literature that is used to terrify people, portrays situations that are at the border between reality and unreality, and contains settings that are macabre and mysterious
- 3. a hero who contains certain dark, personal flaws that one would not normally expect to see in a hero
- 6. things in nature such as comets, rainbows, storms, birth defects, birthmarks, black cats, etc.
- 8. grim, ghastly, gruesome; producing horror; containing symbols of death