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Step-by-step explanation:
Preternatural -- beyond what is normal or natural.
{All at once we heard the crow of a coming up with preternatural shrillness through the clear morning air}
Abyss -- a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm.
{begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings}
Serpentine -- of or like a serpent or snake
[One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to be right before us:]
Demoniac -- of, like, or characteristic of a demon or demons.
[When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.]
Hypnotised -- produce a state of hypnosis in (someone)
[I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call. I was becoming hypnotised!]
Basilisk -- a serpent-like creature capable of destroying other creatures by way of its deadly stare
[But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell full upon me, with all their blaze of basilisk horror. The sight seemed to paralyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, merely making a deep gash above the forehead.]