| Appropriate for Halloween | 25 |
| Really strange | 14 |
| Phantasmal | 10 |
| Like things that go bump in the night | 37 |
| Like poltergeists | 17 |
| Like Poe tales | 14 |
| Like Poe stories | 16 |
| Like many King novels | 21 |
| Like Halloween sounds | 21 |
| Like a graveyard at midnight | 28 |
| Inspiring fear | 14 |
| Causing goose pimples | 21 |
| Beyond unusual | 14 |
| Apt to cause the willies | 24 |
| Adjective for a seance | 22 |
| Spookily weird | 14 |
| Spookily strange | 16 |
| Like some premonitions | 22 |
| Like much of Poe's work | 27 |
| Like horror movie music | 23 |
| Like "Paranormal Activity" | 36 |
| Hauntingly strange | 18 |
| Goosebump-causing | 17 |
| Causing the heebie-jeebies | 26 |
| Causing horripilation | 21 |
| Amazingly coincidental | 22 |
| Too weird for words | 19 |
| Suggestive of the mysterious | 28 |
| Raising goose bumps | 19 |
| Likely to creep you out | 23 |
| Like some Poe tales | 19 |
| Like Poe's tales | 20 |
| Like many Rod Serling stories | 29 |
| Like many Poe stories | 21 |
| Like many a Poe tale | 20 |
| Like ghostly sounds | 19 |
| Like a Clive Barker novel | 25 |
| Like "The Twilight Zone" episodes | 43 |
| Like "The Blair Witch Project" | 40 |
| Like "Goosebumps" tales | 33 |
| Inspiring shivers | 17 |
| Inducing the willies | 20 |
| Haunted | 7 |
| Halloweenlike | 13 |
| Halloween adjective | 19 |
| Evoking goose bumps | 19 |
| Disturbingly weird | 18 |
| Causing heebie-jeebies | 22 |
| A bit unsettling | 16 |
| Weirdly strange | 15 |
| Weird and scary | 15 |
| Very odd | 8 |
| Unnerving, perhaps | 18 |
| Unexplainable | 13 |
| Uncanny, and a bit spooky | 25 |
| Too coincidental | 16 |
| Surreal | 7 |
| Stranger than strange | 21 |
| Spooky and unnatural | 20 |
| Shiver-producing | 16 |
| Shiver-causing | 14 |
| Producing goosebumps | 20 |
| Paranormal, say | 15 |
| Not at all ordinary | 19 |
| More than unsettling | 20 |
| More than strange | 17 |
| Like the remains of sunken ships | 32 |
| Like Stephen King stories | 25 |
| Like some Halloween costumes | 28 |
| Like Serling stories | 20 |
| Like photos of the Titanic before launch | 40 |
| Like old graveyards at midnight | 31 |
| Like many Poe tales | 19 |
| Like many an M. Night Shyamalan film | 36 |
| Like King's work | 20 |
| Like horror movie film scores | 29 |
| Like campfire stories | 21 |
| Like a wolf's howl | 22 |
| Like a séance | 16 |
| Like a poltergeist | 18 |
| Like a King novel | 17 |
| Like a banshee's wail | 25 |
| Like "The Twilight Zone" music | 40 |
| Like "The Shining," e.g. | 34 |
| Like "The Outer Limits" | 33 |
| Like "Tales from the Darkside" | 40 |
| Like "Psycho" | 23 |
| Like "Lost" | 21 |
| Like ''Night Gallery'' stories | 46 |
| Inspiring jitters | 17 |
| Inducing gooseflesh | 19 |
| Inducing goosebumps | 19 |
| Halloweenish | 12 |
| Gooseflesh-making | 17 |
| Creeps-inducing | 15 |
| Causing shudders, maybe | 23 |
| Causing shivers, perhaps | 24 |
| Causing goose bumps, maybe | 26 |
| Causing butterflies | 19 |
| Cause goose pimples | 19 |