Bloodcurdling

Tom heard a bloodcurdling scream.

Tom let out a bloodcurdling scream.

Ziri heard a bloodcurdling scream in the woods.

Ziri heard the bloodcurdling scream of one of the men.

Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.

Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.