Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Ghastly

Ghastly as broad-eyed slumber.
—Anonymous

Ghastly as smiles on some fair maniac’s face
Smiling unconscious o’er her bridegroom’s corse.
—George Eliot

Ghastly as a laugh in hell.
—Thomas Hardy

Ghastly as a tyrant’s dream.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Face ghastly … like a dead man’s by the sepulchral lamp.
—Robert Southey