An abandoned office would most likely be the best one. Just by hearing the word abandoned, it can give people chills because they don't expect what that abandoned office have. In a fiction story, it might have zombies or something.
The statement that describes a gothic element in the excerpt "The Lady Maid's Bell" that would show a social attitute at that the time of the Wharton's was "Some ladies are very stiff about having their servants’ friends in the house overnight."
Odysseus blinded Polyphemus, and now Poseidon is angry and seeks to avenge his son. Further, Tiresias predicts trouble when the ship reaches Thrinacia, where the "fat flocks" of cattle belonging to the sun god, Helios, live.
