Hawthornesque

And I do mean significant — everything from “Revival,” a scary Hawthornesque novel by horrormeister Stephen King, to a slim book called “The Meaning of Existence” by world renowned biologist E.O.

"The Minister's Black Veil" is an example of the peculiar Hawthornesque gloom, which the children would not understand or by ill luck would understand, and suffer the consequent dangerous depression.

The Morris prose style modulates effortlessly between a deadpan Mark Twainish narrative of bizarre situations�Tom Sawyer as Easy Rider�and a grave Hawthornesque moral allegory.

The jacket blurb describes him as "Hawthornesque"; and indeed he is an energetic scruple collector.

I like those shadowy, weird, fantastic, Hawthornesque shapes flitting through the golden gloom, which is the atmosphere of the book.