macabre (m&adot_;käb&etilde_;r) adj. 1. portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen. [Also spelled macaber.]Syn. -- ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid.[WordNet 1.5]
2. Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical dance of death.[PJC]