eldritch

adj

1. Unearthly, supernatural, eerie, preternatural.

   “So Maggie runs, the witches follow, / Wi' mony an eldritch ſkreech and hollow.”

   “I look'd upon the rotting Sea, / And drew my eyes away; / I look'd upon the eldritch deck / And there the dead men lay.”

   “Pearl, in utter scorn of her mother's attempt to quiet her, gave an eldritch scream, and then became silent.”

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

   “The thing advanced to the table. The bright flame of the slush lamp caught its eye. It was amused, and gave voice to eldritch cackles which betokened mirth.”