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Synonyms for haunted

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for haunted

having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

showing emotional affliction or disquiet

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inhabited by or as if by apparitions

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There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.
This has ever since been considered a haunted stream, and fearful are the feelings of the school-boy who has to pass it alone after dark.
The schoolhouse being deserted soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plough-boy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.
On making private inquiries about the grounds said to be haunted by Feather Red-cap, he was more and more confirmed in his surmise.
Wolfert had not a doubt that this was the haunted house of Father Red-cap, and called to mind the story of Peechy Prauw.
The leading anxiety which had hitherto absorbed every feeling being now in some measure appeased, fancy began to wander, and to conjure up a thousand shapes and chimeras as he returned through this haunted region.
Tarr and Professor Fether"; such bits of extravaganza as "The Devil in the Belfry" and "The Angel of the Odd"; such tales of adventure as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"; such papers of keen criticism and review as won for Poe the enthusiastic admiration of Charles Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and melody as "The Bells," "The Haunted Palace," "Tamerlane," "The City in the Sea" and "The Raven." What delight for the jaded senses of the reader is this enchanted domain of wonder-pieces!
THE Liverpool ECHO has teamed up with Most Haunted to give one reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to the Official Most Haunted Experience.
Portland, OR, May 01, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Leonard Pickel built his first haunted house in 1976, formed his company Hauntrepreneurs[R] in 1987 and has been helping people start up and be successful in the Halloween attraction business ever since.
A PUB has been named one of the most haunted in the UK.
YORKSHIRE is England's most haunted region - with 685 entries in the Paranormal Database.
Halloween may be just around the corner, but there's still time to catch a good scare at a suburban haunted house.
It doesn't just string together jump scare after jump scare (although there's no shortage of those-hello, Bent-Neck Lady), it gives you complex characters you will actually get to know and care about, it makes you feel (and we don't just mean fear) and it makes you think about how we are all haunted in one way or another.
London is also home to one of the UK's most haunted theatres, The Theatre Royal on Drury Lane.
Liverpool pubs have been revealed amongst the most haunted ones in the country - but those who are into spooky things will already know that.