Dorian winced and looked round at the grotesque things that lay in such fantastic postures on the ragged mattresses. The twisted limbs, the gaping mouths, the staring lustreless eyes, fascinated him. He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 16. The Gothic style of the novel is very much to the fore in this description by Dorian of the heaven and hell experienced by users of the opium den. Here is the stark Victorian London underworld, where Dorian regularly disappears to join the underbelly of society, when he is not mingling with West End high society.