The Burial That Never Was On Aug. 26, 1856, the synagogue wrestled with a slightly macabre ethical question.

(In a slightly macabre twist, the bill raises taxes on the estates of about 1,000 individuals after they died.)

A few shoppers, Mr. Mulder said, have been offended by the Woofer's slightly macabre sensibility.

There were a few items of machinery in it, but only one thing, resembling a small, slightly macabre piece of sculpture, that he did not instantly recognise.

It was as if she had become a statue poised at the water's edge, a slightly macabre decorative feature of the glade.

C1 Garden of the slightly macabre.

But then, this was a slightly macabre ensemble, the suspense-meisters of a little known New York institution, the Adams Round Table.

"There has always been a slightly macabre side to a wax portrait, and these portraits can seem pretty creepy," Mr. Tansley said.

In this there was a deep, if slightly macabre, satisfaction.

The band writes what they call "endtime ballads," signifying both the slightly macabre nature of their songs and their unusual blend of styles as the final evolution in music.