demon-grotesques

Updated: January 13, 2026

I never saw such a countenance like one of those demon-grotesques we see in the Gothic side-aisles and groinings a dreadful grimace, monkey-like and insane and his thin hand caught up his ebony stick, and shook it paralytically in the air.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh