These--these--these ambiguous, haunted landscapes of various kinds. I mean, most particularly the great Grimpen Mire, which is the bog at the center of the novel that sucks everything down.
Some early writers wrote of its fearsome reputation. Notably, Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes classic The Hound of the Baskervilles in which the fictitious Grimpen Mire was the haunt of the ...