ghoul

And the people - ah, the people - They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone - They are neither man nor woman - They are neither brute nor human - They are Ghouls: - And their king it is who tolls: - And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls

Some cling to you in woebegone misery; others come back fiercely and weirdly, like ghouls bent upon sucking your strength away; others, again, have a catastrophic splendour; some are unvenerated recollections, as of spiteful wild-cats clawing at your agonized vitals; others are severe, like a visitation; and one or two rise up draped and mysterious, with an aspect of ominous menace.

"Ghouls and harpies!" Brissenden snapped out with clicking teeth.

Philip's mind was full of the stories he had heard of baby-farming and the ghouls who ill-treat the wretched children that selfish, cruel parents have put in their charge.

It reminded me of ghouls and idiots and insane howlings.

The ghouls had come later than usual, and they seemed more than usually eager to be gone.

One lies there lapped up in evils, watched over by beings that are worse than ogres, ghouls, and vampires.

Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond.

I was nearly struck dumb with horror on seeing my wife with this hideous female ghoul. They passed by me without noticing me, began to dig up a corpse which had been buried that day, and then sat down on the edge of the grave, to enjoy their frightful repast, talking quietly and cheerfully all the while, though I was too far off to hear what they said.

What sort of a wizard must he be, or ghoul, or madman?

"Do you suppose I eat like an ogre or a ghoul, that you dread being the companion of my repast?"

Ghouls by the pools and a jumping skeleton are also there to welcome you to Birmingham Botanical Gardens like you have never seen - or heard them - before.