spooky
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Some tips for scaredy cats: If you don’t like spooky scary skeletons, creepy crawlies, or horror flicks, Halloween season can be a fright to endure.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Likely not, and whether you lean spooky or playful, the days and weeks leading up to Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
There was just something about the light and the water and the slightly spooky feeling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Albert Einstein famously called entanglement "spooky action at a distance," and scientists have previously observed the effect in systems involving photons, electrons and trapped ions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
“Kind of spooky, don’t you think? We started writing about him on the same day that his name was first recorded. There are more than three and a half centuries in between....”
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
While Ortega wore a bright pink Valentino dress to last year's Met Gala, this year she went with a distinctly spookier and more gothic vibe.
From BBC ● May 2, 2023
The YouTube videos tend to be shorter and spookier, while the podcast episodes are more in-depth and cover true crime stories.
From The Verge ● Jul. 28, 2022
A more apt slogan for these games might be lonelier, quieter, spookier.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022
Organizers say that “while intended for all ages, the event is less scary during our daytime hours and gets spookier as the night goes on.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
Maybe her treasure hunt suspicion was way off—but then why not pick one of Poe’s spookier stories if Halloween was the point?
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Rather, they are merely Halloween-inspired, containing candies that are shaped like bats and cats — undeniably two of the spookiest creatures.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
Not any more, now that I put together this guide to what to do in and around New York City during the year’s spookiest month.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
Consolidation has long been the publishing industry’s buzziest, and probably spookiest, existential threat.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2023
The second based on the theme park’s spookiest ride comes 20 years after the original premiered in 2003.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
It gits almighty cold there in September, an' it was sure the spookiest show I ever seen.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
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