Happy Halloween

Since today is Halloween, I thought I would list some of the most common scary or creepy words and their synonyms for those of you with a penchant for writing about the grotesque or the occult.

• dark - shadowy, dim, gloomy, murky, bleak, pitch black, obsidian, ebony, impenetrable
  
• spooky - sinister, mysterious, threatening, evil, depressing, chilling, insidious, spine-chilling, unsettling, unearthly
  
• gross - repellent, disgusting, sickening, coarse, foul, nasty, awful, dreadful, uncouth, repugnant
  
• kill - assassinate, annihilate, slay, murder, slaughter, execute, destroy, exterminate, eradicate
  
• scream - yell, shout, shriek, cry, screech
  
• mean - evil, vicious, nasty, cruel, callous, malicious, despicable, shameful
  
• weird - strange, bizarre, cryptic, odd, peculiar, uncanny, eerie
  
• scared - terrified, horrified, frightened, afraid, petrified, anxious, timorous
  
• pain - anguish, agony, torture, suffering, distress, misery, woe, torment, angst