The boy’s eyes were like distorting mirrors in which he saw himself made hideous and grotesque.
Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
H.P. Lovecraft, "Herbert West: Re-Animator," 1922
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species.
H.P. Lovecraft, "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family," 1921
Everyone thinks that the architecture, decorative arts, costumes and similar products of their immediate predecessors are hideous.
Richard Howland in Ruth Graham, "Can Buildings Be Too Young to Save?" 2013
Odilon Redon, "The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops" from Les Origines, 1883