Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear

Usage examples of ghostliness.

Something that glowed with a pale, wavering ghostliness stood at the head of the stair.

The examined Other slipped out of focus, a certain ghostliness prevailed.

As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the same quality in the Polar quadruped.

Peaks of ashen hue and pale dry red and pale sulphur pushed up, straight, forked, twisted, naked, striking their minds with an indeterminate ghostliness of Indian, so strange they were in shape and colouring.

Anna in a soft grip creating a sense of ghostliness, of watching her own brutal death from a distance.

My soul and yours - O, hand in hand let us fare forth, two ghosts, Into the ghostliness, The infinite and abounding solitudes, Beyond--O, beyond!

From where he stood at the window, he could just make out, far off, beyond the woods, the Old House nestled in a glade, gleaming with the mysterious ghostliness of a Grecian temple.

Langdon gazed through the dusky ghostliness toward the back of the cathedral and studied the outer walls.

It was sheer ghostliness, the seeming of one who comes through closed doors and sealed tombs, one who is the master of time.

The large white monkey with its brown haunting eyes, as if she had suddenly wrested its interest from the orange-like fruit in its crisped paw, the grey background, the empty rinds all round--bright splashes in a general ghostliness of colour, impressed her at once.