The most obvious example is the gloomy old castle, typical of Gothic fiction.

But all too soon the Sending withdrew and returned to its gloomy castle above the Darkling Sands.

Not that kings and queens in gloomy castles had it much better.

It was a dark, primal place, three acres of old forest untouched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it.

James lives in a gloomy castle in Act I while the sylph's home is a thick, overgrown forest.

"I think it comes from a gloomy Scottish castle."

Loches's gloomy 1,000-year-old castle keep is still intact and the medieval configuration of streets still holds, mostly forbidden to cars.

He hates living in a dark, gloomy castle, and finds the behaviour of his servants to be depressing.

They now return to the gloomy old castle in the Bronx, where a most horrible thing happened to them last October.

I might have been raised by vampires and lived in a dark, gloomy castle.