An eldritch screech. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Like bitter juice scratched in eldritch patience and dried on vellum skin. plethora convoluted diadem. From Wordnik.com. [Rockin' babies and finally done with the class] Reference
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone. From Wordnik.com. [Kidnapped] Reference
Berwin gave a kind of eldritch shriek and stepped back a pace, as though to place himself on his guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent House] Reference
Succumbing to the lure of the stars 'eldritch light. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
It was the most eldritch apparition you can conceive. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
Marius wriggled, giggled, suddenly chillingly eldritch. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
They were the eldritch features of the folk of Melnibon. From Wordnik.com. [The Sailor On The Seas of Fate]
The eldritch sound brought up every head, even Woodcarver's. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Conan's hand went to the eldritch amulet wired at his throat. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]
It was as if his calm, casual movements cast an eldritch spell. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk Eternal]
From some of those windows there spilled a dim and eldritch glow. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
Jemmy Vetch to the giant, rubbing his thin hands with eldritch glee. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Dame Beatrice greeted this cry from the heart with an eldritch cackle. From Wordnik.com. [My Bones Will Keep]
She accompanied this obvious lie with another cackle of eldritch mirth. From Wordnik.com. [My Bones Will Keep]
Fog, eldritch pathfinders and gate-openers, cold steel, and hot tarnblaze!. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
It was followed by an eldritch screech of laughter, a catcall and a loud slam. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
Some light remained, glimmering eldritch from the upper surfaces of the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
They were all shapes and all colors, and they dressed in strange and eldritch ways. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
No glowing crystals in any color, or eldritch runes, or anything in the least peculiar. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
He opened his eyes, watching as the crackling eldritch fire consumed the old man's body. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]
It had all kinds of psychedelic lights all over it, and it made the most eldritch noises. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny Narrowly Avoided] Reference
But his words were blurred by a cry as eldritch as the mystery which surrounded the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
Aberration has turned the rest into a single eldritch constellation girdling enormous night. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
In the trees around him birds began to sing, and the eldritch menace of the night disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk Eternal]
Zelandra grimaced with effort as the demon hammered at her shield with all of its eldritch might. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]
A friend to Clark Ashton Smith, Sidney-Freyer and his work partake of that same eldritch ambiance. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
On this path, there was no moon in the sky, no streetlight, no eldritch glow from any living thing. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
Mrs. Bradley let him get half-way down the kitchen passage, and then she gave an eldritch screech of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
The boy dropped the oars and writhed to starboard, his neck askew at an eldritch angle, his eyes glaring upward. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
A sea of eldritch orbs flows over a pitch backdrop of nothing, casting a yearning light down upon those who yearn back. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
The scanner glows with blacklight, an eldritch sparkle, as the lock reads her soul-engrams through the hollow of her eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
On the whole, no; but I still stopped my ears against the awful chopping sounds and eldritch laughter of the executioners. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
She checked for the taint of dark or eldritch powers and found only that frozen peas were on sale for a dollar thirty-nine. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
In time, the land below, as above, will be dotted with pinpoints of eldritch light scattered on a backdrop of pitch nothingness. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
'I thought as I came alang I had a sort of a feeling as of a wraith nigh about me -- a lang, eldritch sort o' a form i 'the mist.'. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
If a figure in marble could display a fierce, unnatural passion, it would seem no more eldritch than the hate in the icy blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
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