grues
Darkness-dwelling predators
Grues is the plural of grue, a fictional monster from the text adventure game Zork that lurks in darkness and devours players who venture into unlit areas: It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
The creature has become a cultural touchstone in gaming, referenced whenever darkness threatens danger.
In philosophy, "grue" names a different concept—a paradoxical color term invented by Nelson Goodman to illustrate problems in inductive reasoning.
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- goreGraphic bloody violence
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- chillingCausing fear or cold
spine-tingling · bloodcurdling · terrifying · nightmarish · sinister · haunted · ghostly · morbid
Mythical man-eating giants
- trollsDeliberate online agitators
- goblinsMalicious mythical creatures
- demonsMalevolent supernatural beings
- beastsLarge wild animals
creatures · ghouls · wraiths · specters · phantoms · banshees · vampires · giants
Sentence's non-subject portion
- inductionFormal admission process
- GoodmanName meaning upright person
- paradoxSeemingly absurd truth
- projectionSomething that extends outward
confirmation · hypothesis · emerald · sapphire · colorless · time-dependent · observation · evidence
macabre
Disturbing, death-obsessed
chilling · spine-tingling · bloodcurdling · terrifying · nightmarish · sinister · haunted · ghostly · morbid · slasher
ogres
Mythical man-eating giants
- trollsDeliberate online agitators
- goblinsMalicious mythical creatures
- demonsMalevolent supernatural beings
beasts · creatures · ghouls · wraiths · specters · phantoms · banshees · vampires · giants · chimeras
predicate
Sentence's non-subject portion
projection · confirmation · hypothesis · emerald · sapphire · colorless · time-dependent · observation · evidence · riddle