The other is the more macabre thought that her father's death liberated her in some way.
Maybe it's macabre to think this way, but what would Helen have done if the situation were reversed?
The early macabre books – think incest, think murder, think sex with shop mannequins – were acclaimed and they had their devoted fans, but I don't imagine they were big sellers (the first came out in 1975).
Encountering him after such a buildup -- King notes the shape of every passing cloud -- I wondered if I was missing something; some wonderful iconographic subtlety that only a master of the macabre could think of.
Is it macabre as many might think?
If you still think the macabre factor is too much, take solace in the fact that dorm-style rooms mean you'll never have to spend the night in solitary confinement.
"I don't think it's macabre," Ms. McLagan said.
Benedictus obviously thinks this funny: "Think of a macabre That's Life, or a clothed Eurotrash, and you'll be getting warm," he says.
Coyne, once the guitarist and presiding genius behind a band called Jude's Hammer, is a collector of macabre artifacts, including a trepanned skull, a snuff film and Aleister Crowley's childhood chessboard (not all that macabre this last one, I think).
Chesser, the neighbor walking to get his mail, calls the piece "dark" and "macabre" — so dark and macabre, it never occurred to him to think about whether it belongs in a community like his.
"I don't think anyone thinks it is too macabre," the vicar was quoted as saying.
