| More creepy | 
            Commuter | 
            10 Sep 2025 | 
          
          
            | Spookier | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            28 Aug 2025 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
            The Telegraph Cross Atlantic | 
            05 May 2025 | 
          
          
            | More spine-tingling | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            19 Feb 2025 | 
          
          
            | More spine-tingling | 
            USA Today | 
            03 Feb 2025 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
            New York Times Mini | 
            21 Dec 2024 | 
          
          
            | Bit of beer I eradicated for stranger | 
            The Times Quick Cryptic | 
            09 Dec 2024 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
            The Telegraph Cross Atlantic | 
            03 Dec 2024 | 
          
          
            | More strange and scary | 
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            | More chill-inducing | 
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            | More unsettling (6) | 
            The Guardian Quick | 
            30 May 2024 | 
          
          
            | Stranger's hesitant expression that is caught by another | 
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            | More weird | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            17 May 2024 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
            Newsday | 
            24 Apr 2024 | 
          
          
            | Creepier | 
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            | Stranger with additional lager possibly losing head | 
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            | More willies-inducing | 
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            | Spookier | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            23 Nov 2023 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            16 Oct 2023 | 
          
          
            | More bone-chilling | 
            USA Today | 
            07 Oct 2023 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
            Universal | 
            11 Aug 2023 | 
          
          
            | Producing more chills | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            14 Feb 2023 | 
          
          
            | More ghoulish | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            11 Dec 2022 | 
          
          
            | More ghostly | 
            New York Times | 
            18 Oct 2022 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
            Canadiana | 
            26 Sep 2022 | 
          
          
            | More Lovecraftian | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            27 Aug 2022 | 
          
          
            | European monarch twice hosts one stranger | 
            The Guardian Cryptic | 
            08 Aug 2022 | 
          
          
            | More like an empty old mansion at night, say | 
            New York Times | 
            24 Jul 2022 | 
          
          
            | Spookier, creepier | 
            Irish Times Simplex | 
            08 Jun 2022 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            28 Mar 2022 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
            The Washington Post | 
            28 Mar 2022 | 
          
          
            | More unearthly | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            12 Feb 2022 | 
          
          
            | More unsettling | 
            Universal | 
            11 Jan 2022 | 
          
          
            | More creepy | 
            Universal | 
            26 Dec 2021 | 
          
          
            | Stranger | 
            The Times Concise | 
            27 Aug 2021 | 
          
          
            | More creepy | 
            Universal | 
            26 Jul 2021 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
            Universal | 
            08 Apr 2021 | 
          
          
            | More uncanny | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            19 Feb 2021 | 
          
          
            | Stranger sounding than 21? | 
            The Guardian Speedy | 
            06 Dec 2020 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
            Universal | 
            23 Nov 2020 | 
          
          
            | Like "Halloween," and then some | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            23 Sep 2020 | 
          
          
            | Like 'Halloween,' and then some | 
            The Washington Post | 
            23 Sep 2020 | 
          
          
            | More macabre | 
            Newsday | 
            30 Aug 2020 | 
          
          
            | More spine-tingling | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            29 Jun 2020 | 
          
          
            | More Halloweeny | 
            Newsday | 
            25 Jun 2020 | 
          
          
            | More hair-raising | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            11 May 2020 | 
          
          
            | Stranger | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            23 Apr 2020 | 
          
          
            | More strange | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            20 Mar 2020 | 
          
          
            | More mysterious | 
            Newsday | 
            08 Dec 2019 | 
          
          
            | More strange | 
            The Times Concise | 
            02 Aug 2019 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            13 Jul 2019 | 
          
          
            | More chilling | 
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            | More spooky | 
            The Washington Post | 
            14 Dec 2018 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            14 Dec 2018 | 
          
          
            | More chilling | 
            The Chronicle of Higher Education | 
            06 Jul 2018 | 
          
          
            | More spine-chilling than any other | 
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            | More unsettling | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            19 Apr 2018 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
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            | More chilling | 
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            | More strangely frightening | 
            The Times Concise | 
            06 Oct 2017 | 
          
          
            | Less earthly | 
            Newsday | 
            10 Aug 2017 | 
          
          
            | More spine-tingling | 
            Newsday | 
            03 Jul 2017 | 
          
          
            | More weird and creepy | 
            Universal | 
            13 Mar 2017 | 
          
          
            | Stranger | 
            New York Times | 
            19 Feb 2017 | 
          
          
            | More ghostly | 
            Premier Sunday | 
            22 Jan 2017 | 
          
          
            | Stranger | 
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            | More chilling | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            22 Nov 2016 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
            New York Times | 
            18 Oct 2016 | 
          
          
            | More spine-tingling | 
            USA Today | 
            19 Aug 2016 | 
          
          
            | More spine-tingling | 
            The Washington Post | 
            17 Aug 2016 | 
          
          
            | Weirder | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            02 Apr 2016 | 
          
          
            | Stranger more boozed up, losing head | 
            The Telegraph Toughie | 
            08 Mar 2016 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
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            | More spine-tingling | 
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            | More odd | 
            Canadiana | 
            14 Sep 2015 | 
          
          
            | More spooky | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            20 Mar 2015 | 
          
          
            | Twice as spooky | 
            USA Today | 
            20 Mar 2015 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
            Premier Sunday | 
            08 Mar 2015 | 
          
          
            | More weird | 
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            | Twice as spooky | 
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            | More mysterious | 
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            | More inexplicable | 
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            | More Serling-esque | 
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            | More chilling | 
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            | More bizarre | 
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            | More spine-tingling | 
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            | More spine-tingling | 
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            | Spooky, by comparison | 
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            | More hair-raising | 
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            | More chilling | 
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            | More spine-tingling | 
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            | More spooky | 
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            | More spooky | 
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            | More chilling | 
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            | Comparatively creepy | 
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            | More spooky | 
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            | More macabre | 
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            | Even more spooky | 
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            | Comparatively spooky | 
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            | More inexplicable | 
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            | Comparatively spooky | 
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            | More spine-tingling | 
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            | More chilling | 
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            | More unearthly | 
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            | More bizarre | 
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            | More haunting | 
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            | More mysterious | 
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            | Like haunted houses, compared to ordinary houses | 
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            | More uncanny | 
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            | Twice as spooky | 
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            | More weird | 
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            | Like a haunted house vis- -vis a fun house | 
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            | Less reassuring, perhaps | 
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            | Eliciting more goose bumps | 
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            | Twice as weird | 
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            | Like "Psycho," and then some | 
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            | Like "Psycho," and then some | 
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            | More creepy | 
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            | More spooky | 
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            | More creepy | 
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            | More chilling | 
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            | More unnerving | 
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            | More creepy | 
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            | More creepy | 
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            | More inexplicable | 
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            | Twice as spooky | 
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            | Weirder | 
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            | More creepy | 
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            | More uncanny | 
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            | More supernatural | 
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            | More spine-tingling | 
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            | More macabre | 
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            | Producing more chills | 
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            | More chilling | 
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            | More macabre | 
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            | More uncanny | 
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            | More weird | 
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            | More weird | 
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            | More frightening | 
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            | More spine-tingling | 
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            | More unearthly | 
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            | More like a "Twilight Zone" episode | 
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            | More scary | 
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            | More unearthly | 
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            | More unearthly | 
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            | Weirder | 
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            | More strange | 
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            | Comparatively uncanny | 
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            | More spine___tingling | 
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            | More unlike the normal | 
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            | More like Rod Serling works | 
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            | More uncanny | 
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            | More fantastic | 
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            | Comparatively spooky | 
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            | Scarier | 
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            | Twice as weird | 
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            | More mysterious | 
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            | More weird | 
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            | More mysterious | 
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            | More eldritch | 
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            | More uncanny | 
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            | More macabre | 
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            | More creepy | 
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            | More weird | 
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            | Weirder | 
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            | More spectral | 
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            | More phantasmal | 
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            | More hair-raising | 
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            | Adjective for the "Munsters" et al. | 
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            | More spooky. | 
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            | Stranger. | 
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            | More mystifying. | 
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            | More uncanny. | 
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            | More creepy | 
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            | Like haunted houses vis-à-vis normal houses | 
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            | Weirder. | 
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            | Spookier. | 
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            | More ghostly. | 
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            | More weird. | 
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            | More frightening. | 
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