A nice, quiet dread.

Allmovie called it a "gothic-drenched apocalyptic nightmare" that builds "a suffocating sense of quiet dread".

So many terrible things had happened to them in so many places that Chyna eventually learned to view each new house not as a new beginning, not with hope for stability and happiness, but with suspicion and quiet dread.

He'd always known this day would have to come eventually; but though he had to admit he had a natural gift for authority, he'd always had a quiet dread of responsibility.

Molly lived with a quiet dread of following her mother into obscurity.

Mr. Mailer's "Executioner's Song" reflected the storm around Gilmore; "Shot in the Heart" rests firmly in the quiet dread of the eye.

-style scares with the quieter existential dread, keeping both sides of that argument happy.

The day was pleasant, but even in the brightest sunlight a kind of quiet dread and portent seemed to hover about the strangely domed hills and the deep, shadowy ravines of the stricken region.

Instead, on restless nights, he was kept sleepless by the quiet dread of losing those he loved.