baleful

About this “sharp, sleazy sluice of Southern Gothic horror,” the Guardian writes that it has “a stubborn, almost literary feel for character that accumulates a baleful momentum by the time the finale hits.”

To that end, Morana, was in many ways, the baleful representation of the advent of winter – the goddess signifying the cycle of death.

He consequently dines secretly with his old friend Bunker and, through that trickster’s baleful influence, soon finds himself in a Scottish castle, passing himself off as its new laird, Lord Tulliwuddle.

If you’re ever at a loss to account for why this country is gripped by hatred and belief in baleful falsehoods, click on a few of them.