It’s a perfect setting for a fantastic, semimythological creature like the Duke to cavort in.

The figures upon seals were as various as among us, except that the ancients used figures of their ancestors, friends, or even themselves. In Stosch is a symbolical ring, supported by two cornucopias. Upon the beazle is a mask in relief, and in the circle of the ring a crescent and star.

She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.

Jump-scares, suspense, and sudden violence are all a major part of the horror genre.