Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, former house employees returned as sinister ghosts, wore cadaverous makeup slashed with flesh wounds.
Haunted by the spirit of his father's sinister Holy Ghost radio, Enoch is as much enthralled by notions of personal glory as he is the power of the Word.
To some, that leap still seems so inexplicable that it requires a sinister rationale: in "The Ghost," a roman à clef about Mr. Blair, the novelist Robert Harris posits that the prime minister had a secret C.I.A. connection that obliged him to pay obeisance to the White House.
An array of outcasts faded movie stars, ghosts, a sinister nun indulge in sudden blitzes of drugs, kidnapping, and terrorism when they're not pondering the meaning of life.
I stepped away — a reflex — from a wound gaping groin to knee, full of, well, dying flesh infected, engulfed by white, sinister, crawling, tiny maggots, ghosts waiting for reincarnation.
The album does not contain the off-the-hook experimentation of 2002's "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel" or the sinister tug of 2004's "Ghost Is Born" but is a kind of compilation of a band at the height of its powers.
In the midst of a castle full of ghosts, the perfect sinister place for the gamesmanship that Danny and Howie have practiced since the Dungeons & Dragons of their boyhood, Ms. Egan explores a different idea of what spookiness means.
It was a very pretty house – it's still there, a sometime paper bag factory, although repainted out of recognition – yet it was slightly sinister, as if haunted by ghosts of some perennial Dickensian past, forever bitingly cold and slightly forbidding.
No ballet here; instead there were pacts with the devil, schoolgirl sacrifice, the ghosts of hanged girls, sinister cults, evil scientists experimenting on the innocent and terrifying parallel worlds where the Nazis won the second world war.
Described by the group as their evil side showing, "Counting Sheep" is a sinister sibling to last year's "Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds".
