card A Carpathian Gothic stronghold: a mountainthat drinks the moonlight, every corridorbending toward hunger. The castle is notshelter but host -- the stone inhales theliving. Mirrors refuse to work; time pools andthickens in doorways. To cross its bridge isto enter one's own bloodstream. From Murnau(1922) through Eggers (2024), each adaptationremakes the geometry of dread. Architecture aspredator, hunger carved into stone.