So it’s certainly correct to call Mr. Scarlett’s work “Acherontic,” a word whose dictionary meanings include “infernal, gloomy, waiting to cross Acheron, moribund.”

The artist had evidently a picture of Charon and his Acherontic boat in his mind, which was thus reproduced in his feverish dreams.

I wondered how of late our Acherontic shore Grew thin, and hell unpeopled of her store; Charon, for want of use, forgot his oar.