| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | aching | full of emotional pain |
| 2. | achingly beautiful | beautiful with painful emotion |
| 3. | affecting | emotionally touching |
| 4. | apparitional | like a ghostly appearance |
| 5. | arresting | striking and hard to ignore |
| 6. | atmospheric | creating a strong mood |
| 7. | baleful | menacing and harmful |
| 8. | bittersweet | both pleasant and sad |
| 9. | bleak | cold, bare, and depressing |
| 10. | brooding | darkly thoughtful or threatening |
| 11. | broody | moody and darkly thoughtful |
| 12. | captivating | very attractive and absorbing |
| 13. | chilling | causing fear or shivers |
| 14. | creepy | causing nervous fear or disgust |
| 15. | cryptic | mysterious and hard to understand |
| 16. | dark | gloomy or sinister |
| 17. | desolate | bleak, empty, and sad |
| 18. | disquieting | making someone feel uneasy |
| 19. | disturbing | causing anxiety or alarm |
| 20. | doom-laden | full of a sense of doom |
| 21. | dread-inducing | causing a sense of dread |
| 22. | dreamlike | vague, unreal, and evocative |
| 23. | echoing | repeating in the mind |
| 24. | eerie | strangely frightening and unsettling |
| 25. | enduring | lasting a long time |
| 26. | enigmatic | hard to interpret or understand |
| 27. | entrancing | delightfully captivating |
| 28. | ethereal | delicate and otherworldly |
| 29. | evocative | bringing strong memories or feelings |
| 30. | fateful | having important, ominous consequences |
| 31. | fey | otherworldly or strangely magical |
| 32. | foreboding | suggesting coming trouble |
| 33. | forlorn | pitifully sad and lonely |
| 34. | funereal | suggestive of a funeral |
| 35. | ghastly | shockingly dreadful or ghostly |
| 36. | ghostly | like a ghost; pale or eerie |
| 37. | ghoulish | morbidly fascinated with death |
| 38. | gloomy | dark, sad, or depressing |
| 39. | grim | harsh, gloomy, and serious |
| 40. | haunted | troubled by persistent memories |
| 41. | hauntingly beautiful | beautiful in a sad, eerie way |
| 42. | hauntsome | eerily memorable or ghostlike |
| 43. | heart-rending | causing deep sorrow |
| 44. | heartbreaking | causing great sadness |
| 45. | hypnotic | holding attention in a spelllike way |
| 46. | indelible | leaving a lasting impression |
| 47. | inescapable | impossible to avoid or forget |
| 48. | insistent | demanding attention repeatedly |
| 49. | lasting | continuing for a long time |
| 50. | lingering | staying in the mind |
| 51. | longing | showing strong desire or sadness |
| 52. | macabre | grimly connected with death |
| 53. | melancholy | sad in a thoughtful way |
| 54. | mesmerizing | captivating in a spellbinding way |
| 55. | morbid | disturbingly focused on death |
| 56. | mournful | expressing sorrow or grief |
| 57. | moving | arousing strong emotion |
| 58. | mysterious | difficult to understand; strange |
| 59. | nagging | persistently troubling the mind |
| 60. | nightmarish | like a frightening nightmare |
| 61. | nostalgic | longing for the past |
| 62. | obsessive | hard to stop thinking about |
| 63. | ominous | suggesting something bad ahead |
| 64. | otherworldly | seeming beyond the ordinary world |
| 65. | pensive | thoughtful in a sad way |
| 66. | persistent | continuing despite attempts to stop |
| 67. | phantasmal | dreamlike and ghostly |
| 68. | phantom | ghostly or unreal |
| 69. | piercing | deeply felt or sharply intense |
| 70. | plaintive | sounding sad and mournful |
| 71. | poignant | deeply affecting and moving |
| 72. | portentous | significant in a threatening way |
| 73. | redolent | strongly suggestive or reminiscent |
| 74. | reminiscent | bringing memories to mind |
| 75. | resonant | deeply meaningful and suggestive |
| 76. | reverberant | continuing to echo or resound |
| 77. | ringing | remaining vividly in memory |
| 78. | shadowy | dim, vague, and eerie |
| 79. | sinister | seeming evil or harmful |
| 80. | sorrowful | full of sadness |
| 81. | spectral | resembling a ghost or spirit |
| 82. | spellbinding | holding complete attention |
| 83. | spooky | frightening in a supernatural way |
| 84. | striking | noticeably impressive or unusual |
| 85. | surreal | strangely dreamlike or unreal |
| 86. | threatening | suggesting danger or harm |
| 87. | touching | causing warm sadness or sympathy |
| 88. | trancelike | resembling a trance |
| 89. | transporting | carrying the mind away |
| 90. | troubling | causing worry or distress |
| 91. | uncanny | strangely mysterious or disturbing |
| 92. | unearthly | strange and not of this world |
| 93. | unforgettable | impossible to forget |
| 94. | unnerving | making someone lose confidence |
| 95. | unsettling | causing unease or discomfort |
| 96. | vivid | clear, powerful, and memorable |
| 97. | weird | strangely unusual or unsettling |
| 98. | wistful | sadly longing for something |
| 99. | wraithlike | thin, ghostly, and unreal |
| 100. | yearning | full of longing |