: Instead of a ghost haunting a specific family, the horror is a vast force that threatens the reality of all humankind.
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| Aspect | Gothic | Eldritch | |--------|--------|----------| | | The past, sin, the repressed self | The unknowable cosmos, alien intelligence | | Monster type | Ghosts, vampires, mad scientists | Ancient gods, shapeless things, biological anomalies | | Human role | Central, morally significant | Irrelevant, powerless | | Resolution | Possible through virtue, faith, or destruction of evil | Impossible; only delay or madness | | Setting | Castle, abbey, ancestral home | Lost cities, Antarctic wastes, alternate dimensions | | Tone | Melancholic, romantic, suspenseful | Clinical, nihilistic, awe-terror | the gothic and the eldritch pdf full