Read the excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.

"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit."

What mood do these lines evoke in the reader?

A. one of hostility
B. one of bleakness
C. one of serenity
D. one of terror