The Haunting

The Haunting is a literary trope where a character or group of characters experiences intense psychological terror and distress within an environment imbued with a palpable, supernatural malevolence that threatens to consume them, often blurring the lines between reality and madness.

The thrill of a palpable, supernatural malevolence that threatens to consume characters, blurring the lines between reality and madness. It's the chilling dread of an environment that feels alive with unseen, hostile forces, probing the fragility of the human psyche in the face of existential uncertainty.