WordMageGothic words. Dark discoveries.
Words for shadowed places, strange encounters, and a haunted imagination.
A lexicon of light and shadow
Curiosities from the shadows.
A gathering of the strange, the haunting, and the wonderfully obscure. Explore the darker corners of English, simply for the pleasure of the words themselves.
- oubliette
A dungeon or prison cell, typically accessible only through a trapdoor in the ceiling.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- exsanguine
lacking blood.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- premonstrance
a portent, an omen
Collection source: Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities- teratology
the study of monsters
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- phantasmagoria
crowd of phantoms; series of shifting images or scenes.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- malediction
curse.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- jeremiad
mournful prophecy, story or complaint.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- invultuation
stabbing of wax image of person to be injured as form of witchcraft.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- lamia
mythical monster with snake's body and woman's head and breasts.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- cryptozoic
living hidden, or in darkness.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- chthonian
Pertaining to underworld deities or spirits; associated with subterranean or earth-based gods, especially in classical mythology.
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy- malison
a curse; an utterance invoking harm or misfortune
Collection source: Luciferous Logolepsy
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