stygian

Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways.

He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.

Framed in Stygian iron, the magical portal was a set of elevator doors—two panels of silver and black etched with art deco designs.

The actors are shot in separate gloomy interiors, and from stationary positions, so as to appear in Stygian Zoom-like frames as if at a virtual meeting of hobbits.

The protagonist, Nephthys Kinwell, is, in one light, an alcoholic taxi driver, and, in another, a Stygian ferrywoman haunted by the violent death of her twin brother, Osiris.