The phrase "awful ghost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a ghost that is perceived as frightening or unpleasant in a narrative or descriptive context.
Example: "The children huddled together in fear as they heard the stories of the awful ghost that haunted the old mansion."
Alternatives: "terrifying spirit" or "dreadful apparition".
In Russell Hoban's 1980 novel Riddley Walker, with its demotic Joycean dialect, post-apocalyptic Kent is in thrall to the ghost of an awful energy once loosed upon the land: "that cleverness what made us crookit".
And I don't want to malign my gracious hosts, but the aforementioned "ghost chiles" are awful.
"It's not great, is it?" She went on: "This place isn't Blackpool any more, it's a ghost town – and it's bloody awful.
And moments after he has seen her "naked, body and ghost and daemon together", in every awful particular, she contrives to seduce him.
Laura confronts the awful truth: Simon has gone away with the ghost-children of the orphanage, the contemporaries she left behind all those years ago; to get him back, she must play their game and follow their rules.
He shrugged off the Perry ghost by winning the US Open, ending that awful longueur that stretched back 76 years.
With a history this dark -- MacKenzie has also been the scene of several awful murders -- the park is home to numerous other ghost stories, too.
"An awful lot of politicians in Washington I think are haunted by the ghost of shutdowns past," Cruz said on Laura Ingraham's radio show.
As Armitage pored over a 1612 tome, a long grey wailing cartoon ghost of the hapless mother flew out of it; when Jennet's awful testimony was recited, the camera focussed on a cartoon child's cold, staring eyes.
They spend an awful lot of time talking to them, though: "Are you a woman that got killed here?" — "Ghost Adventures" "Come on, you coward, where are you?" — "Paranormal State" "Can you please walk towards me?" — "Ghost Hunters" "Is there a spooky ghost here?" — "South Park" O.K., that last one was a ringer.
