HORROR VOCABULARY

Paranormal: impossible to explain by known natural forces or by science

Sentence: Do you believe in the paranormal and other psychic phenomena?

Disquieting: inducing feelings of anxiety or worry

Sentence: The letter gave disquieting news of the war.

Ghoulish: ugly and unpleasant, or frightening:

Sentence: she told the story with ghoulish relish

Ghastly: causing great horror or fear.

Sentence: There is no way for us to escape this horrible, ghastly death.

haunting: beautiful, but in a sad way and often in a way that cannot be forgotten

Sentence: He was troubled by haunting memories of the war

Dread: great fear or apprehension

Sentence: I was filled with dread at the thought I might forget my lines

phantasm: something that is seen or imagined but is not real

Sentence: he boy thought he saw a ghost, when it was simply a phantasm he perpetuated out of fear.

Sinister: especially evil or leading to evil : bad

Sentence: there was something sinister about that murmuring voice

Cadaver: a dead human body

Sentence: There is a cadaver in the morgue that is missing a liver.

Goblin: a small, ugly creature that is harmful to humans

Sentence: He was the strangest-looking creature Davy had ever seen, not even excepting the goblin