When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures.

But this crude grotesquerie of horrorquite in the taste of that day, the day of "Monk" Lewis and Mrs. RadcliffeColeridge's finer poetical judgment soon rejected.