Descriptions & Equivalents
- alarming
- almost a horror movie
- blood chilling
- box of rattlesnakes
- brain-stopping scary
- certain nightmare perspective
- chilling moments before the shooting
- chillingly disconnected
- close call
- coldest smile
- corn mazes
- creaking floorboards
- dangerous precedent
- dark turn
- daunting
- deepening shadows
- disturbing
- dodged a bullet
- don't look behind you
- down a dark rabbit hole
- everything was at 90 degrees
- far down the darkened hallway
- fear mongering
- feeds on your fear
- feet dangled above the crowd
- foreboding mist
- fresh hell
- fraught with danger
- from beyond the grave
- getting hairier by the second
- ghosts
- going down a dark road
- going over a waterfall in a barrel
- gunman crept up on the camper while he slept
- hair-raising adventures
- harrowing situation
- headless horsemen
- heard pounding from inside the truck
- heard the sound of my own heart-stopping
- he came closer and closer
- howling night-terrors
- it came into focus and then disappeared altogether
- its shadow grew and shrank as it passed under the lights
- life-threatening
- like a cocked gun
- like living between a blowtorch and a barrel of gasoline
- man breaking into the house
- man hid in the basement behind the heater
- maniac-on-the loose
- man stared him down
- monster under the bed
- movie shown out of focus
- no one can hear you scream
- ominous sounding
- out of my comfort zone
- painted a chilling picture
- panic inducing
- perilous situation
- real menace
- reality thickened
- red hot lava flowed dangerously near the house
- rocketing down a scary roller coaster
- scared the crap out of me
- setting off panic
- shadows arose
- shadows chased him
- someone knocked but no one was there
- someone was following him
- something cold and unnatural
- something was out of place
- sounds that seemed sinister
- spooky
- suspicious situation
- swallowed up by reality
- things would get a whole lot darker
- took a brazen turn
- two steps behind you
- unformed dread
- unnerving
- unsettling
- very spooky thing
- wavy looking glass
- went in the back door while she was sleeping
- whatever you do don't breath
- white light coming in
Scary. A person or situation that causes fear. The scary man with the red-orange hair drove by the Helen’s house thirty-two times in one evening.
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