grue

• He wondered whether anyone else had experienced a similar touch of grue, and cursed Ullanoth for not telling him the truth about the spunkies— whatever it might be. —  Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
• Editor Shane Ryan Staley—whose frame tale about haunted lodgings really is underutilized by the participants—assembles twenty-five stories imbrued with grue, but all rather unsurprising in their morbid denouements. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
• The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. —  MetaFilter Projects
• I must dip in these restorative waters myself, lest I should be taken rather for your father than your--' Here Dr Pendle, recollecting the falsity of the unspoken word, shut his mouth with a qualm of deadly sickness--what the Scotch call a grue Mrs Pendle, however, observant rather of his looks than his words, did not notice the unfinished sentence. —  The Bishop's Secret
• He had turned a complete somersault in the water beneath us, giving us a "grue" as we reflected what would have happened had he then chosen to come bounding to the surface. —  The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales

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