ghoul

The ghoul that keeps Putin awake at night is a Ukrainian Cossack.

In Arabic legend, a ghoul is a creature that eats both stolen corpses and children.

He may have meant no more than Emerson, who pictured ill health as a ghoul preying on the heart and life of its victims.

The moonlight made Smith's sallow, disfigured face so much more ghastly than usual, that he had the air of a ghoul or vampyre.

Standing straight, protect us by thy splendor from evil; burn down every ghoul.

Of both portions Jennet and Ellen partook, and would have had Grace join them in the ghoul-like repast, but she refused.

It will cause a woman to fall in love with a ghoul, not to speak of one so tall and handsome as Raymond Lulli.