Sentence examples for ancient horror from inspiring English sources

And it's consensual cannibalism that's the 21st century's contribution to this ancient horror - via the internet of course.

We worked a lot on Carrie's physicality, to make her look like an ancient horror figure, a blood-coated somnambulant zombie, a witch returned from the dead.

A woman discovers a dead body in a low-rent museum of ancient horrors.

The ancient barbaric horror flashed for all to see in the smirk on Sam Donaldson's face.

Named for the Great Old One, a newly discovered fossil bears a striking (and hopefully superficial) resemblance to H.P. Lovecraft's ancient cosmic horror.

The earth's quiet beauty and the horror of ancient battles, malevolent pot-bellied giants and castles tenanted by grey-clad husks of malice are conveyed in mellifluous, ornate prose, never overwhelming for all its richness.

In a single dreamlike list the reader is transported from ancient Mesopotamia to the horrors of the "whipped backs" of slaves.

So to start with we get a litany of horrors from ancient and not-so-ancient history: a catalogue of the unspeakable things that human beings have traditionally been willing to do to each other.

For Holmes, the brutality of ancient sieges anticipates the horrors of the aerial bombing of cities in the second world war, such as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (100,000 dead).

I cut off their heads like lambs and the whole of the city I laid waste". For Holmes, the brutality of ancient sieges anticipates the horrors of the aerial bombing of cities in the second world war, such as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (100,000 dead).

There's the classic horror period (vampires, ancient burial grounds, psychic powers, apocalypses); there's the quieter, worried parent period (rabid dogs, dead pets, children trapped in fantasy worlds); and then there's a paranoiac addiction – and recovery – period (insane fans, alien invasions and crazy barely-real twins).