I started this a while ago when I found razor pendulum. I've only used his gothic or semi-gothic work. I'd like to see your deck when it's done.
Except for two cards, everything I found was black, blue, white, or colorless.
-Themes: Fear or Terror, Guilty Conscience or burden of guilt, murder, murder investigation, Melancholy, Drown in sorrow, sealed fate, hint of insanity, Descent into Madness, brink of madness, gloom (although it sucks for this deck) or douse in gloom, mourning, Induce Paranoia or paranoid delusions
-Iconic elements: Razor pendulum, Premature Burial or Buried Alive, vampiric embrace, ravens crime or raven familiar or mist raven
-The Black Cat: Black Cat, Guilty Conscience or burden of guilt, entomb, murder, murder investigation, hint of insanity, descent into madness, paranoid delusions
-The Cask of Amontillado: vengeance, darkwater catacombs or drowned catacomb, Premature Burial or Buried Alive, murder, entomb, terror or fear
-A Descent into the Maelstrom: sudden storm
-The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar: sadistic hypnotist, mesmeric trance, murder
-William Wilsom: hint of insanity, descent into madness, brink of madness, fear, terror, clone
-Fall of the House of Usher: Premature Burial or Buried Alive, entomb, Disentomb, Vault of Whispers, Claustrophobia, Guilty, Descent into Madness, brink of madness, child of the night, hint of insanity, whispering madness, Phantom monster (the flavor text is a metaphor for Roderick Usher's insanity), vampire's bite, vampiric embrace, vampiric link, vampirism, Melancholy, fear, terror, gloom, raise dead, paranoid delusions, induce paranoia
You could build a FotHoU deck. Too bad they don't make an incest card. I guess vampiric embrace could have two meanings.
-The imp of the perverse: Guilty Conscience or burden of guilt, imps taunt, nettling imp, murder, hint of insanity, whispering madness, Descent into Madness, brink of madness
-Ligeia: Melancholy, drown in sorrow, descent into madness, brink of madness, mourning, corpse dance, raise dead
-the conqueror wurm: chorus of woe, death charmer worm or skeletal wurm or vector asp (fitting) or Marshviper (which would be perfect except that it's green. It even has the right flavor text), vipers kiss, sealed fate, necrobite, gift of the deity, Descent into Madness, brink of madness, whispering madness, appropriate angel cards
The Conqueror Worm is part of Ligeia. Putting the two together could make a stand alone deck.
-Mask of the Red Death: endemic plague, deaths approach, blighted agent, avatar of woe, sealed fate, Induce Paranoia, fear or terror
-Murders in the Rue Morgue: murder investigation
-The Pit and the Pendulum: Razor pendulum, Razor pendulum!, RAZOR PENDULUM!!!, R-A-Z-O-R P-E-N-D-U-L-U-M or GTFO, Death Pits of Rath (8th or 9th ed flavor text!), fear, terror, Torture Chamber, Inquisition, torture, ravenous rats
-The Premature Burial: Premature Burial or Buried Alive, fear, terror, hint of insanity, brink of madness, Induce Paranoia, paranoid delusions
-The Tell-tale Heart: murder, murder investigation, Guilty Conscience or burden of guilt, dismember, hint of insanity, Descent into Madness, brink of madness, whispering madness, Induce Paranoia or paranoid delusions, fear or terror
-Annabel Lee, Lenore, Ulalume, and Eulalie: Merieke Ri Berit, Angel's Tomb, mourning, dirge of the dead, appropriate angel cards
-the purloined letter: blackmail
-The city by the sea: avatar of woe, Urborg (flavor text!), sinkhole, ghosts of the damned, damnation, army of the damned
-The Bells: discordant dirge, Ghoulcaller's bell, Ghoulcaller's chant, Village bellringer, raise the alarm, five alarm fire (except its red), arcum's sleigh, appropriate zombie or ghoul cards, an appropriate zombie lord
I started this a while ago when I found razor pendulum. I've only used his gothic or semi-gothic work. I'd like to see your deck when it's done.
Except for two cards, everything I found was black, blue, white, or colorless.
-Themes: Fear or Terror, Guilty Conscience or burden of guilt, murder, murder investigation, Melancholy, Drown in sorrow, sealed fate, hint of insanity, Descent into Madness, brink of madness, gloom (although it sucks for this deck) or douse in gloom, mourning, Induce Paranoia or paranoid delusions
-Iconic elements: Razor pendulum, Premature Burial or Buried Alive, vampiric embrace, ravens crime or raven familiar or mist raven
-The Black Cat: Black Cat, Guilty Conscience or burden of guilt, entomb, murder, murder investigation, hint of insanity, descent into madness, paranoid delusions
-The Cask of Amontillado: vengeance, darkwater catacombs or drowned catacomb, Premature Burial or Buried Alive, murder, entomb, terror or fear
-A Descent into the Maelstrom: sudden storm
-The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar: sadistic hypnotist, mesmeric trance, murder
-William Wilsom: hint of insanity, descent into madness, brink of madness, fear, terror, clone
-Fall of the House of Usher: Premature Burial or Buried Alive, entomb, Disentomb, Vault of Whispers, Claustrophobia, Guilty, Descent into Madness, brink of madness, child of the night, hint of insanity, whispering madness, Phantom monster (the flavor text is a metaphor for Roderick Usher's insanity), vampire's bite, vampiric embrace, vampiric link, vampirism, Melancholy, fear, terror, gloom, raise dead, paranoid delusions, induce paranoia
You could build a FotHoU deck. Too bad they don't make an incest card. I guess vampiric embrace could have two meanings.
-Eldorado: Frozen Shade (with flavor text), gallantry, shadow of doubt, shadow rider (metaphor), Soltari Lancer(has shadow), youthful knight, Deaths shadow
-The gold-bug: White scarab, treasure hunt
-silence: Frozen Shade (flavor text!)
-The imp of the perverse: Guilty Conscience or burden of guilt, imps taunt, nettling imp, murder, hint of insanity, whispering madness, Descent into Madness, brink of madness
-Ligeia: Melancholy, drown in sorrow, descent into madness, brink of madness, mourning, corpse dance, raise dead
-the conqueror wurm: chorus of woe, death charmer worm or skeletal wurm or vector asp (fitting) or Marshviper (which would be perfect except that it's green. It even has the right flavor text), vipers kiss, sealed fate, necrobite, gift of the deity, Descent into Madness, brink of madness, whispering madness, appropriate angel cards
The Conqueror Worm is part of Ligeia. Putting the two together could make a stand alone deck.
-Mask of the Red Death: endemic plague, deaths approach, blighted agent, avatar of woe, sealed fate, Induce Paranoia, fear or terror
-Murders in the Rue Morgue: murder investigation
-The Pit and the Pendulum: Razor pendulum, Razor pendulum!, RAZOR PENDULUM!!!, R-A-Z-O-R P-E-N-D-U-L-U-M or GTFO, Death Pits of Rath (8th or 9th ed flavor text!), fear, terror, Torture Chamber, Inquisition, torture, ravenous rats
-The Premature Burial: Premature Burial or Buried Alive, fear, terror, hint of insanity, brink of madness, Induce Paranoia, paranoid delusions
-The Tell-tale Heart: murder, murder investigation, Guilty Conscience or burden of guilt, dismember, hint of insanity, Descent into Madness, brink of madness, whispering madness, Induce Paranoia or paranoid delusions, fear or terror
-The Raven: Ravens crime (nevermore!), drown in sorrow, melancholy, raven familiar, mist raven, mourning
-Annabel Lee, Lenore, Ulalume, and Eulalie: Merieke Ri Berit, Angel's Tomb, mourning, dirge of the dead, appropriate angel cards
-the purloined letter: blackmail
-The city by the sea: avatar of woe, Urborg (flavor text!), sinkhole, ghosts of the damned, damnation, army of the damned
-The Bells: discordant dirge, Ghoulcaller's bell, Ghoulcaller's chant, Village bellringer, raise the alarm, five alarm fire (except its red), arcum's sleigh, appropriate zombie or ghoul cards, an appropriate zombie lord