In what way is the setting characteristic of gothic fiction?
O The house is decaying.
The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor
knocker, was blistered and distained. Tramps slouched
into the recess and struck matches on the panels;
children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had
tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a
generation, no one had appeared to drive away these
random visitors or to repair their ravages.
-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
Robert Louis Stevenson
The house is crowded.
O The house is ancient.
The house is pleasant.