blood-curdling vs eerie

blood-curdling

adj
  • Causing terror or horror. 

eerie

adj
  • Frightened, timid. 

  • Strange, weird, fear-inspiring, especially in a shadowy or mysterious way. 

noun
  • An eerie creature or thing. 

How often have the words blood-curdling and eerie occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )