All was still and bare and lifeless, and as the short day closed in there was an eeriness about the scene which made the travellers glad to draw the curtains over the windows, and which gave an added cheeriness to the prospect of tea.
"Pixie O'Shaughnessy"
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
It lessened the eeriness a lot to know beforehand what a Martian looked like.
"Stamped Caution"
Raymond Zinke Gallun
And amid the eeriness of it all Constance suddenly felt it very strange that they were all of them there, all strangers in the old, gloomy house, which had once belonged to Henri's stern parents.
"Dr. Adriaan"
Louis Couperus