HELP ME OUT PLEASE!

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 the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

What mood is established in this paragraph?


A) calm

B) dread

C) liveliness

D) optimistic​