eldritch

The injured and indignant animal gave vent to a succession of eldritch screams.

And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone.

The gossipy gables of the old houses lean toward each other like peaked eldritch faces in fluted red caps.

An eldritch laugh at a little window, which communicated with the street, at this moment electrified the speaker.

I thought as I came alang I had a sort of a feeling as of a wraith nigh about me—a lang, eldritch sort o' a form i' the mist.'