Editing Gothic Horror (section)

===Natural Law & Taboo===
There are natural laws which apply to every man and woman on Earth. They are inescapable, immutable, and more fundamental than any human law. Natural justice will deal harshly with violators.

Nature is cruel and all-powerful. Her unwritten laws define the ways in which it is proper for man to act toward his fellow man. as well as toward the natural world. All good and decent human beings have strong inner guidance to inform them of right and wrong. There is no distinction between scientific "laws" such as "what goes up must come down," and moral "laws" such as strictures against incest, patricide, and cannibalism. In a gothic world, actions are determined to be criminal, not by society's whim, but by the very nature of the universe.

Deliberately breaking one of nature's laws is a sign of unfitness to be numbered among the human race. Such an offender becomes an outcast and a nonperson. If word ever gets out, he and his entire family will be ruined. Gothic stories often deal with the breaking of taboos; crimes that society finds not only unforgivable, but "unnatural," crimes against nature itself.