This is a themed cryptic crossword, with the theme in both the clue or the reply. The theme is loosely ‘gothic horror’, with some exceptions for different spooky stuff that match nicely.

Beware! There is at the least one Printer’s Devilry and at the least one Composite Anagram someplace inside.

Across:

1, 28. Out chilly after making reservations for nobleman (maybe a Transylvanian) (4,3,3,5)

6, 29. Neat following for household radio stations in Hawaii (4 and 4)

10. Separate and Extract whole power e.g. from a poltergeist, gently? (5)

11. Phantom pen crossing out a personality with the beginnings of Howard Lovecraft ending averted in The Pearl of Asia (5, 4)

12, 22. Film, Silent, (no English). In it a phrase of motion, for all to see: “Hand the French an answer to the whole lot” (6, 6)

13. Morticia with cousin turned again? See yours actually leaving with early participant? (6)

14. Byron’s Poem a succulent piece of historical past. (8)

16. See 15dn.

18. Palm studying reveals affair (6)

20. Sang maybe of Lenore, reviving lifeless ball (8)

22. See 12ac.

23. Gothic novelist and docs assistant? That is likely to be why limbs are lacking. (6)

27. Cursed down dale, and up hill with out odd daybreak I’d correspond to one thing pure.

28. See 2ac.

29. And 6ac.

30. Lacking image restorer, he created the portrait curse (unwittingly) to stay alive in opposition to all odds (5, 5)

Down:

1. Gives a drug to carry out seances! Spare the cane please. (5)

2. Sir Isaac & Spooner’s resistance circle victorious. (7)

3. Tragic victors coronary heart inserted into fantastical shell (5)

4. Re: Pleaides, Poe (Henri, these days) leaves and makes one other cut price. (8)

5. See 25dn.

7. Chilling choice for lobotomy method? (7)

8. Mostly finish hears’y, some lifeless scattered inside and lowered into coffin. (9)

9. Hedonistic mannequin taken in; Dorian Grey maybe and is likely to be technique to 30ac. (8)

14. Barker with alchemy, lies right here forgotten, however one other on trial was launched after repining neck fabric. (4, 5)

15. Get able to kill vampire, it is how one will increase danger (5,3,6)

17. Carriage accident reveals mysterious particular person, leaving Laura amorous, sinisterly and seen in a glass darkly. (8)

19. Bright framing of ghostly needlewoman? What devilry is that this? (7)

21. Felix and Bella: “Perhaps flowers, together with a Lily and the opposite aspect of the rose, have a elegant vary of colors?” (5)

24. Perhaps blood in drinks, shirts or boots, positioned disquietingly? (5)

25., 5. Search maybe performed by the press? (5-4)

26. Silent episode that includes gents with human-ish exterior. (4)