"murkiness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is unclear, dark in tone, or ambiguous. For example: "The murkiness of the situation made it difficult to see a way forward."
But things are rather more murky than precise here; and if murkiness isn't necessarily a drawback in a lengthy literary novel, it interferes rather with the punchiness of a short-form work specifically sold as horror.
Wyndham had just outlined the violence and murkiness in Homes's dark satires of American life: a jailed paedophile, a girl who picks up used condoms and inseminates herself, car crashes, adultery, murder.
The trio are influenced by surf-rock, early rock'n'roll and the wayward end of goth, but the roiling murkiness is their own.
The earliest poems are prolix, or full of what Motion calls "word eruptions", but he finds the later poems strike a "balance between the murkiness and the clarity".
Thousands of people joined demonstrations in support, many of them brandishing sunflowers (see picture): a rebuke to the murkiness of cross-strait negotiations.
In some ways things have got worse: the Commerce Department's annual report on American contractors' offsets no longer even breaks out the numbers country-by-country.This murkiness makes it hard to determine who really pays for offsets.
Mr Medina, who insists he is innocent, claims to be the victim of a "dirty war".Business bosses are also furious about the murkiness of a contract to build an expensive 372km (231 mile) water pipeline, known as Monterrey VI, at a time when the state's debt is already high.
It has also illustrated the murkiness of this sort of warfare.
The sheer complexity of today's financial industry adds to the murkiness.
The foundation does plenty of charitable work, but it also helps to provide a platform for Mrs Clinton to do things that look a lot like campaigning.Few think that such murkiness will be cleared up by better control of e-mails, however.
It might seem a bit rich for the state broadcaster of a secretive, authoritarian country to chide Baidu for murkiness.
