His murdered dreams and ambitions came back to eldritch life and asked if he could forget them so easily.
King, Stephen
The Stand
He was afraid of the darkness which lived within that eldritch column, waiting to eat anyone who got too close, but he wanted to see it again just the same.
Stephen King
The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
I anticipated some such reception, he began with an eldritch laugh, for which, it seems, history is to blame.
James Joyce
Ulysses