The phrase "a horrific memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particularly distressing or traumatic recollection that evokes strong negative emotions.
Example: "The survivor spoke about a horrific memory from the war that still haunted him years later."
Alternatives: "a traumatic memory" or "a dreadful recollection."
Occasionally, though, a boy would reveal a horrific memory.
He'd overwhelm his cravings by visualising a horrific memory of a cancer patient at Stanford's medical school, "on a gurney [stretcher], with x-marks on his head and exposed chest, being wheeled into radiation".
Each has a horrific memory or two from the war that has led to recurring nightmares, rage, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, shame and suicidal tendencies, among other symptoms.
Its collapse is a horrific memory for the town and now it will bring everyone together.
In the case of a horrific memory of a scenario you're unlikely to encounter again, your body has a sleep-related strategy as well.
Genuine or not, such a door was a portal to a plethora of horrific memories, inspired by a pileup of fictions, heinous acts of barbarity and unsolvable mysteries.
However, a horrific single memory of an open graveyard littered with slain beautiful Lebanese horses breaks this camera by forcing him to confront his traumatic experiences from the war, thereby inviting him inside the movie [his memories], instead of seeking protection outside it.
The Haggler witnessed this phenomenon once and will go to his grave with the horrific memory of two people nattering over a plea for quiet.
But anticipating voting disputes — and with the horrific memory of 2000's seemingly unending election in mind — both campaigns have dispatched teams of lawyers to watch for any shenanigans and, in a quintessentially American rite, sue.
Tapia, who was 5 feet 6 inches, said the raw fury he displayed in winning his world titles came from the horrific memory of seeing his mother being kidnapped and murdered when he was 8.
Suddenly all these horrific memory fragments rushed to the surface -- all those times I'd woken with intense pain and bruising around my genitals and butt, feeling drugged out and woozy.
