'that magic place, the fairy castle whose walls were made of foam'
The Bloody Chamber
'Sea; sand; a sky that melts into the sea - a landscape of misty pastels'
The Bloody Chamber
'Ah! His castle. The faery solitude of the place'
The Bloody Chamber
'his castle that lay on the very bosom of the sea'
The Bloody Chamber
'that castle, a mysterious, amphibious place'
The Bloody Chamber
'That lovely, sad, sea-siren of a place!'
The Bloody Chamber
'Then he led me up a delicate spiral staircase'
The Bloody Chamber
'There lay the grand, hereditary matrimonial bed'
The Bloody Chamber
'Sea breezes are bad for pianos'
The Bloody Chamber
'a dark little corridor full of horrid cobwebs'
The Bloody Chamber
'lovely prison'
The Bloody Chamber
'ill-lit' 'the electricity, for some reason, did not extend there'
The Bloody Chamber
'the corridor wound downwards'
The Bloody Chamber
'A long, a winding corridor'
The Bloody Chamber
'I could no longer hear the sound of the sea'
The Bloody Chamber
'Snowy drive... before a miniature, perfect, Palladian house'
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
'... behind snow-laden skirts of an antique cypress'
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
'the enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place'
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
'timeless spell of the house... possessing the radiant and finite quality of dream'
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
'December still possessed his garden'
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
'perfect darkness'
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
'dust, everywhere; and it was cold'
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
'I glimpsed suites of vaulted chambers opening one out of another like systems of Chinese boxes'
The Tiger's Bride
'The Beast had chosen to live in an uninhabited place'
The Tiger's Bride
'The sweet thunder of this purr shook the old walls, made the shutters batter the windows until they burst apart and let in the white light of the snowy mood. Tiles came crashing down from the roof'
The Tiger's Bride
'The reverberations of his purring rocked the foundations of the house, the walls began to dance'
The Tiger's Bride
'a derelict bedroom'
The Lady of the House of Love
'now you are at the place of annihilation'
The Lady of the House of Love
'closely barred shutters and heavy velvet curtains'
The Lady of the House of Love
'the dark red figured wallpaper is obscurely, distressingly patterned'
The Lady of the House of Love
'depredations of rot and fungus'
The Lady of the House of Love
'the walls are...embroidered with tears of pearl'
The Lady of the House of Love
'this garden, an exceedingly sombre place'
The Lady of the House of Love
'the sun drops behind the mountains'
The Lady of the House of Love
'an entirely uninhabited place'
The Lady of the House of Love
'the great bulk of mansion, whose facade loured over the village'.
The Lady of the House of Love
'in the subtle and haunting light of the setting sun'
The Lady of the House of Love
'vanish into the dark entrails of the mansion'
The Lady of the House of Love
'ill-lit room'
The Lady of the House of Love
'into this vile and murderous room'
The Lady of the House of Love