devil-ridden vs dismal

devil-ridden

adj
  • Suffering from mental anguish. 

  • Wild, crazed. 

  • Plagued or dominated by the devil or devils. 

  • Possessed by a devil or devils. 

dismal

adj
  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

How often have the words devil-ridden and dismal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )