grewsome

Whether it was too grewsome for their taste or whether there was some other reason, Gibbs tried hard to find out.

Above the entrance—grewsome and realistic spectacle—is poor St. Lawrence broiling away on his stone gridiron!

And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler.

From time to time they caught the grewsome head by the hair and shook it violently, shouting, Who-oo-oo!

The narrator had heard this grewsome tale from his grandmother, who said that she had seen the hole.