terror-haunted love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Haunted with terror; subject to visitations of extreme fear.

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Examples

  • One man journeys forth across the terror-haunted world to seek the source of a telepathic echo, the cry of his long-lost loved one, Mirdath the Beautiful, whom he knew in a previous cycle of existance, uncounted millions of year before.

    What's The Most Underrated Science Fiction Novel? 2005

  • In our time — in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia — no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of Clans of the Alphane Moon and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

    04.04 M-mv 2004

  • In our time — in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia — no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of Clans of the Alphane Moon and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

    Philip K. Dick M-mv 2004

  • In our time — in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia — no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of Clans of the Alphane Moon and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

    03.04 M-mv 2004

  • In our time — in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia — no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of Clans of the Alphane Moon and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

    03.04 M-mv 2004

  • In our time — in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia — no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of Clans of the Alphane Moon and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

    03.04 M-mv 2004

  • In our time — in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia — no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of Clans of the Alphane Moon and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

    Archive 2004-04-01 M-mv 2004

  • To bodies that had been laid in earth, in joyful expectation of a far different awakening, there came that hasty, lamp-lit, terror-haunted resurrection of the spade and mattock.

    The Body-Snatcher 2004

  • Native ideas recognise this terror-haunted landscape as the point where Times touches Eternity, and natural forces blend with occult influences.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

  • How could a man ride alone into such a gloomy, terror-haunted domain?

    Last of the great scouts; the life story of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") as told by his sister, Helen Cody Wetmore 1899

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