Halloween is lurking around the corner!
In the weeks leading up to Halloween, we’ll explore words to chill your spine and raise goose-flesh on your arms.
Our first blood-curdling word is ganch, which comes to us from the Turkish word for “hook,” kanca. That’s not surprising, as the word refers to the grisly act of impaling a victim on a hook or spike.
Things that live in or arise from dead matter are necrogenic, a word that may conjure images of the unclean and the undead.
And when some necrogenic horror crawls from the grave, it often wears a rictus of evil intent on its face. The wide, fixed “grin” of a mouth stretched wide is inherently unsettling.
Check in next week when we explore curse words of a different sort…
