Room Ruddy-Aggravating 2.0

[SpaceAnJL]

This is an issue with the genre. In visual media, you can set atmosphere immediately, and it is easy to convey Gothic unease or the sheer difference of an environment. Text, you have to put some spade-work in. Especially if the setting is another world. 'London 1889' is excellent atmospheric shorthand, as is 'Rome in the time of Caesar' or 'Ancient Egypt' ( despite the fact that most of these will be inaccurate mental images fostered by said film industry, but.)