eldritch

• For depth I prefer digging back to eldritch-grungy roots, Proto-Indo-European (PIE) or Semitic: wegh-, to go; reub-, to snatch; hsp, to be insolent.
• But once I got back, and realized that I'd survived it all, I'd regard it as fascinating and wonderful, and not in any way a cause for monstrous, eldritch, loathsome, hideous, frightfully adjectival Lovecraftian terror, if I were to stumble on the actual archives of that lost civilization But if “Shadow” is overwrought, it is gloriously overwrought. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2005
• Step by step you grasp the eldritch, unimaginable architecture of H. P. Lovecraft's R'lyeh and other cyclopean relics of the Great Old Ones, while staying safe at home. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 01 - January 2001
• I remember laughing to myself uproariously, noticing at the same time, with a sort of wonder, what a wild, eldritch, gibbering laugh it was, at the thought of how those sharks--yes, there were three; I was certain of it--would jostle and hustle each other, in their greedy haste to get at me, were I to simply stand up and topple over the gunwale into the water. —  The Log of a Privateersman
• If ye see the laird, tell him what ye hear; tell him this makes the twelve hunner and nineteen time that Jennet Clouston has called down the curse on him and his house, byre and stable, man, guest, and master, wife, miss, or bairn--black, black be their fall And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone. —  Kidnapped

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