ghoulish vs grim

ghoulish

adj
  • Of or pertaining to ghouls. 

  • Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing. 

  • Fascinated by corpses. 

grim

adj
  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

verb
  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

How often have the words ghoulish and grim occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )