The phrase "macabre atmosphere" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a feeling or mood that is dark, unsettling, and often associated with death or the supernatural. It is most commonly used in literature or descriptions of events or settings. Example: As the sun set, a macabre atmosphere settled over the abandoned graveyard, with shadows dancing among the crumbling tombstones and an eerie silence filling the air.
Dave McKean's ominous graphics, combining puppet tableaux, photomontage and paint, create a wonderfully macabre atmosphere around Gaiman's characters.
An all-star cast includes Jessica Hynes as Hare's manipulative wife Lucky, and Isla Fisher as Ginny, the wannabe stage star who ensnares Burke's foolish heart: her all-female production of Macbeth amplifies the macabre atmosphere.
All this plays against his arrival in the hermetic town of Sleepy Hollow, his desire for the farmer's daughter, Katrina, and his rivalry with another suitor.The macabre atmosphere is great fun on the stage: skeletal trees, an ominous, orange moon, whirring wind, hair-raising music and, of course, the headless horseman riding in dreamlike slow-motion through the dark.
A ferocious, toothy woman by Willem de Kooning; a maniacally grinning, pop-eyed bronze "Head of a Guardian" from Japan; a Mexican folk sculpture of the skeletal figure of death riding in a rough cart; and a rugged, simply carved gravestone by the American folk artist William Edmondson together create a richly uncanny, macabre atmosphere.
In the earliest horror films, which were influenced by German Expressionist cinema, the effect of horror was usually created by means of a macabre atmosphere and theme; The Student of Prague (1913), an early German film dealing with a dual personality, and The Golem (1915), based on the medieval Jewish legend of a clay figure that comes to life, were the first influential horror films.
The macabre, eerie atmosphere in the bunker is brilliantly captured.
Before long, a macabre party atmosphere prevailed, with the paramilitaries setting up radios with dance music and ordering a local guitarist and accordionist to play.
James was a macabre master of atmosphere and intimation.
The time-split narrative works superbly, and the atmosphere is eerily macabre - Dark Places is even better than the author's award-winning Sharp Objects Laura Wilson's Stratton's War is published by Orion.
Despite its macabre setting, the novel is curiously lacking in atmosphere.
In Schubert's vocal version, the macabre text and the darkly rippling piano line share the work of evoking horror, but Liszt's transcription creates the terrifying atmosphere on its own, even without the tale of death pursuing a sick child as his father tries to carry him to safety.
