melancholy vs the dismals

melancholy

adj
  • Affected with great sadness or depression. 

noun
  • Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. 

  • Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. 

the dismals

How often have the words melancholy and the dismals occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )