Uncanny; weird.
(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/unheimlich)
"In making the case for Jackson as a herald of Friedan and others, Franklin doesn't say much about Jackson's humor—which is a pity, because one of her most distinctive and appealing characteristics is a tendency to interleave unheimlich atmospheres and dark portraits of psychological breakdown with bursts of spry drawing-room comedy, droll Mitfordian dialogue, and the odd joke about eating children."
- Zoe Heller, "Haunted Houses: What frightened Shirley Jackson?", 17 October 2016 The New Yorker (https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-haunted-mind-of-shirley-jackson/amp?client=safari)
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