horrifical

If the pine woods be characterized by cathedral solemnity, and the cedars and tamaracks by certain horrifical gloom, and the popples by a silvery sunshine, and the berry-clearings by grateful heat and the homely manner of familiar birds, then the great hardwood must be known as the dwelling-place of transparent shadows, of cool green lucency, and the repository of immemorial cheerful forest tradition which the traveller can hear of, but which he is never permitted actually to know.

The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909

That’d be horrifical, for then the dragon that sleeps in the earth would no longer be able to sleep peaceful.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966