ghoul

• Danley probably thought he was some kind of ghoul, Andreas thought. —  Iris Johansen - Final Target
• They used to say that she was a ghoul, a female vampire; but I believe she was none other than Beelzebub himself He ceased to speak, and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the effect of his words on me. —  Clarimonde
• Those two back in the stern next to old ghoul-face--how do those strike you? —  Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'
• Mirza, the Polish Jewess, who became Lady Lashmore in 1615, practised sorcery in life and became, after death, a ghoul--one who sustained an unholy existence by unholy means--a vampire But, sir! —  Brood of the Witch-Queen
• And across the black water, in that ghoul-haunted, trackless wilderness, could be heard the sound of timber being rent in splinters and of great trees crashing down the mountainside Suddenly a word from Westy Martin aroused them all like a cannon shot Look!" —  Tom Slade's Double Dare

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