Chuck Hogan

The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

American Author

Ron Reagan

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

American Journalist

Philip Pullman

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

British Writer

Jane Smiley

Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

American Writer

Anne Sweeney

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

American Businesswoman

John Lithgow

The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

American Actor

Wesley Clark

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

American General

Nikki Grimes

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.

Kirstin Maldonado

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.

American Musician

Paul J. Meyer

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

American Businessman

Use 'uncanny' when something is so strange it almost seems supernatural.

Mystery Element

'Uncanny' can be positive when describing a remarkable skill or talent.

Not Negative

Use 'uncanny' for things that unsettle you because they are hard to explain.

Unsettling Feeling

'Uncanny' describes situations that are unusual or improbable, which can surprise people.

Unexpected Situations

Use 'uncanny' to highlight someone's impressive and unusual ability in a specific field.

Impressive Talent

Apply 'uncanny' when likening one thing to another that seems extraordinarily alike.

Unusual Comparison

 captain of this unruly team for each of them soon came to understand that he possessed an unparalleled array of emotional strains and political skills that proved far more important than the thinness of his external resume for one thing he possessed an uncanny ability to empathize with and to think about other

Learning from past...

 But the ballet is much more concerned with the violent relationship between humans, nature, and culture than with character or plot. These themes manifest in a truly upsetting production which combines harsh music, jerky dancing, and uncanny staging.

The ballet that incited...

 There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book. In this case, I was writing a story that included some kind of detail, period of history, a certain location.

Where does creativity...

 That's me on the internet. I know the resemblance is uncanny. But I'm going to talk a little bit today about Minecraft. That's my Minecraft character. If you don't know the game very well, don't worry too much about it.

How I use Minecraft to...

 and ultimately brought the aerobes to life by designing them with fluid movement and lighter-than-air construction. When you look at these aerobes, it gives you a feeling almost opposite to the uncanny valley.

Intelligent Floating...

 and the doctor could do nothing for them. In time, the doctor’s potent potion and uncanny instincts became known throughout the land. He grew rich and famous, casting off the hardships of his early life.

The tale of the doctor...

 now called my daughter at the same time Claire's paintings began to bear an uncanny resemblance to Margaret's was it an appropriation or an act of selflessness or some strange amalgam of

Living in a shadow PIPE...

 because it provides them an accurate determination of the angle and direction of their vessel. The palu also had an uncanny ability to forecast weather conditions days in advance.

Elizabeth Lindsey:...

 understand why seals have long figured in the folklore of our coastal fringes as possessing an uncanny double nature

Orange Seals on British...

 uncanny coming through the woods it was said to cause a shiver to anyone with an ear sight