No chance again of finding that grisly horror under his fingernails.

The great battle scenes are rendered with a power and grisly horror both increased and made oddly transparent by a freshness and innocence of diction.

But he was utterly nauseated at the reactions of his fellow Romans: presumably civilized men and women, gloating over the grisly horror below.

Or, as one put it: "Nothing can describe the confusion, the savage, blood-curdling yells, the murderous faces, the awful curses, and the grisly horror of the melee."

Silverhair was battling her own compulsion to flee this grisly horror.

And while that link, which involves a story of grisly horror, provides the author with a logical scheme of motivation, it is also problematic as a fictional device.

The nocturnal noises started up again, and I lay back to sleep once more with a vague feeling that some grisly horror had passed me in the night.

Indeed, maybe the grisliest horror in these books is their prose.

How could he possibly put into words the sheer grisly horror of those gaping Lon Chaney nostrils, those stretched-back lips, that incinerated hair?

We cannot tell what he might take it into his mind to do, what grisly horrors he might suddenly decide to perpetrate.