- describe everything as "queer"
- use "shew" instead of "show"
- have a ton of synonyms for "dark", like "tenebrous" or "umbral"
- racial slurs. just a bunch of 'em
The man’s countenance–queerly shaded, as though some unseen storm cast upon it a tenebrous pall–shewed a cast to the eye more typical of the inscrutable Asiatic, and yet he had the wan coloring and coarse features seen often amongst the more lowly and degenerated of those indigent farmers of the Miskatonic Valley.