Precisely because he's an invisible, inexplicably malignant presence, with no motive other than pure sadism, those questions seem irrelevant.

It seemed to both of them that some intelligent and malignant presence lurked behind them in the darkness, following them, watching them.

He is a malignant presence who seems to hover like the grim reaper over every manager that works under him.

"His sister wrote to him," Angela said, collapsing onto a nursery chair, trembling in the aftermath of his malignant presence.

Suddenly he knew what that nauseous odor was, why he had sensed a malignant presence.

But there is one ancient, malignant presence among you.

Chikwava utilises the nameless narrator as a malignant presence in Shingi in order to articulate a duality of consciousness.

"It's a seething malignant presence and it hates all of you!"

Winn felt a malignant presence behind her; turning, she saw Neemak Counselor.

Mr. Salva will have to make his creature something more than a slithering, slobbering, wholly malignant presence if he wants his franchise to succeed.