Eerie vs. Ominous — What's the Difference?

Eerie was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white magazine intended for newsstand distribution and did not submit its stories to the comic book industry's voluntary Comics Code Authority.

Menacing; threatening

Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.

Of or being an omen, especially an evil one.

(Scots) Frightened or intimidated by superstition.

Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

Strange, weird, fear-inspiring, especially in a shadowy or mysterious way.

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

(Scotland) Frightened, timid.

Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; - formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.

An eerie creature or thing.

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

Presaging ill-fortune;

Affected with fear; affrighted.

Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious;

So strange as to inspire a feeling of fear;