Meaning of fever-dreamlike | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a fever dream.

Examples

“Stuart Gordon, whose debut, RE-ANIMATOR, was the sleeper horror hit of 1985, returned again to the fever-dreamlike stories of H.P. Lovecraft for his source in FROM BEYOND.”

“[T]he dominant tone is barely suppressed hysteria, complemented perfectly by Philip Glass’s insistent, fever-dreamlike score.”

“Or was it his nerves at all? Elliot thought back, despite himself, to the fever-dreamlike trudge through the Hockomock, to the resting place of the Ujaraanni, to the swamp’s vague corruption and the almost desperate efforts of nature itself to purge the intrusion.”

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