ghoulish

They cast a ghoulish light on this roughly 8-by-10-foot room, where the family of eight struggles to survive.

Such was their appearance; mournful, ghoulish, yet human and warm in a repressed, frustrated way.

So he had devised a ghoulish and crafty punishment, which, the more he pondered it, the more subtle and effective did it appear.

To French readers this scene may seem a ghoulish farce: English humour accepts it from Norwegian humour without demur.

Seen as I had seen it, it was a ghoulish-looking place—as weird as a Paris catacomb—but then daylight makes all the difference.

So once again the phantom rider had brought its grisly message—played its ghoulish rôle.