Modifies a noun

• fascination: I've always had a somewhat macabre fascination with true-life crime stories.

• humor: I could always find the macabre humor in such woes.

• tale: For Phoenix, Pita works his magic on the macabre folk tale, Snow White.

• twist: This is the Japanese equivalent to Belsen or Auschwitz but with added macabre twists to the methods of human experimentation and extermination.

• story: The full and macabre story of what happened at Qibya was revealed only during the morning after the attack.

• turn: In Edinburgh's old Parliament House, an armed robbery trial is about to take a macabre turn.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: One of the major tourist sights in Moscow, however, is a somewhat macabre reminder of communist Russia's heyday.

• rather: Had my rather macabre wish for a suspended been granted.

• slightly: An amusing, if slightly macabre, theme for a puzzle.

• often: Directors: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson CORPSE BRIDE marries gorgeous eye-popping visuals with a twisted and often macabre sense of humor.

• sometimes: I have a have a very dark, and sometimes macabre sense of humor.

• too: It seems too macabre to suggest that she was a mourner at another funeral, stricken down suddenly on the platform and promptly buried!

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It seems too macabre to suggest that she was a mourner at another funeral, stricken down suddenly on the platform and promptly buried!