Gloomth

 
In describing the Strawberry Hill Gothic mansion of Horace Walpole, begun in 1745, the TLS characterizes Walpole's Gothic impulse:  "The dead, the creatures of dreams, of nightmares and of fiction all played a part in creating what Walpole called 'gloomth' in the house where , just over a decade later, he was to write The Castle of Otranto, the first Gothic novel."

Gloomth is a big topic.  I can imagine more than one panel at Readercon engaging with it.  "Gloomth: Blight or Blessing?"  "Whith...