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Dread

A register of sustained anticipatory fear. Two Tier 1 sources define it and neither is about tattooing. The British Library places it on the viewer rather than the image - “the psychological experience of being full of fear and dread” - and the BFI describes a film that “conjures a sense of genuine dread”. TRANSFER TO SKIN IS INFERENCE, marked as such.
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No links2 sources · T1

What the research says

mood
Category
threatening
Keywords
dread; foreboding; anticipatory fear
Conflicts or cautions
NO FETCHED TATTOO SOURCE USES THIS WORD. visual_traits is left empty rather than invented, which makes this row unusable by a prompt compiler as it stands. That is the honest state.

Provenance

2 resolved

  • Gothic motifs (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 1

    John Bowen, The British Library

    British Library Discovering Literature article by Professor John Bowen. Verbatim: Gothic characters "find themselves in a strange place; somewhere other, different, mysterious"; the mode reaches for "the sublime, to shock us out of the limits of our everyday lives with the possibility of things beyond reason and explanation". Fetched from the British Library's .cn mirror because bl.uk paths for this article did not resolve during this task.

    cultural institution · retrieved 2026-08-28

  • 10 great lesser-known folk horror films (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 1

    British Film Institute

    BFI list article. Verbatim on the genre's characteristics: "Landscape is essential to many folk horror narratives, isolating communities and individuals" and "Esoteric belief systems and lapses of morality are also key"; and "Most discussions jump off from the 'unholy trinity'", comprising Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man (1973). IMPORTANT LIMIT: a film list, not a tattoo source.

    cultural institution · published 2019-10-24 · retrieved 2026-08-28

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