(dedicated to Kim Schilling, a poet friend)
wild
tense
exotic
anguish
castle
almost ruin
ghosts
mysterious
secrets
gruesome
characters
specific setting
a girl
clever
escape
faith's power
soul
fear
deepest
unconscious
first
American
professional
author
four
horror
novels
in two years
Ormond
Wieland
Arthur Mervyn
Edgar Huntley
a pioneer to
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(inspired by Charles Brockden Brown's novels)
Ahmad Shiddiqi
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/american-gothic-3/
