awful vs eerie

awful

adj
  • Very bad. 

  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 

adv
  • Very, extremely. 

  • Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. 

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 awful and eerie occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )