Taylor was surrounded by soldiers from his army, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), some of whom went into battle in a sort of macabre burlesque, often cross-dressing in wigs and women's underwear, wearing amulets believed to make them impervious to bullets.
A trio of true believers from the Taliban blew themselves up in downtown Kabul today, leaving behind the sort of macabre tableau that much of the world has become sadly used to: writhing bodies, severed limbs, wailing mothers.
As a result, what had been a sort of macabre hobby of mine, indulging in the odd bout of health anxiety, graduated to a near obsessive level and, like my dad, I was pretty much focused on one thing.
It was the sort of macabre discovery usually reserved for police dramas set in New York: Out for an early morning walk with the dog on Tuesday, a man and his son found severed body parts packed into bags and dumped curbside on a Bronx street.
For the evening's first half -- during which the irresistible Lulu, a former child prostitute, sees three successive husbands fall dead more or less at her feet -- this is all quite enjoyable as a sort of macabre boudoir farce about the ultimate material girl.
So he did most of his autopsies at night, giving his practice a sort of macabre mystique.
In the case of "The Addams Family," he said, "you've got the harpsichord, which lends this antique, sort of macabre quality to the theme.
You enjoyed Christmas and some sort of beach situation and thoughts of the macabre were far from your mind.
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B, saying "As an achievement in macabre visual wizardry, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride has to be reckoned some sort of marvel".
