Gothic Styler

You want moody, and you're tired of spelling it out. GothicStyler gives you a single dropdown of 91 gothic presets - Dark Cathedral, Gargoyles of the Night, Gothic Stained Glass, Eternal Nightfall, Moonlit Catacombs, Victorian Mourning - and turns "a vampire in a ballroom" into a fully-dressed gothic prompt with a matching negative. It's the plain (non-Advanced) Gothic node from aegis72/comfyui-styles-all, the pack that preserved azazeal04's removed SDXL Prompt Styler styles.

What it actually is

One menu, one job. Type your subject into text_positive, pick a gothic flavor from the Gothic dropdown, and the node wraps your text in the style template while appending the style's own negative to yours. The Gothic list is the biggest single theme menu in the pack - 91 options spanning architecture, fashion, horror comics, tarot, weddings, and even gothic steampunk airships, so it's less "one mood" and more "a gothic category browser."

Because it's pure text surgery, it works identically on SDXL and SD 1.5 checkpoints: the code just does a {prompt} placeholder replacement. No model loads, no API, no extra downloads.

The inputs that matter

• text_positive - your subject. The style template wraps around it.
• Gothic - the 91-option dropdown; None passes your prompt through untouched.
• log_prompt - on by default; prints the before/after prompts to the console. Flip it off once you trust the output.

Outputs: text_positive (styled prompt) and text_negative (your negative plus the style's, comma-joined). Both STRING - feed them into your checkpoint's CLIPTextEncode.

Installing it

ComfyUI Manager (search ComfyUI-styles-all), or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/aegis72/comfyui-styles-all

Then restart ComfyUI. No requirements.txt, no models.

Where people get burned

• The negatives add up. Each preset brings its own negative (e.g. Chiaroscuro Masterpiece adds "High-key, well-lit painting"). Fine on its own; crowded if your negative box is already full.
• Restart after edits. The dropdown is built from data/Gothic/Gothic.json at startup, so your custom entries only appear after a reload.
• Flux barely reacts. These were written for SDXL's CLIP encoders; on LLM-encoded models the gothic keywords do much less. Stick to SDXL-lineage checkpoints (including anime merges) for real effect.
• Prefer the plain version here. The Advanced twin of this node has a quirk where its two positive boxes swap roles - for a simple gothic flavor, this one is the less surprising choice.