macabre

adjective3

1. •
   Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

   • The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. — 1927
2. •
   Obsessed with death or the gruesome.

   • Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds. — 1993
3. •
   Representing or personifying death.