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What “The Trouble With Harry” needed, Herrmann wrote, was “a musical portrait of Hitchcock . . . gay, funny, macabre, tender and with an abundance of his sardonic wit.”

Israel accused Hamas of a macabre manipulation that violated the terms of the cease-fire.

Murphy and Brennan’s purported point in making this third chapter of “Monster” is to drive home how central Gein’s macabre case is to the horror genre.

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After his unexpected shift into the macabre, when he "saw something terrible, I saw pound signs".

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It’s a rather macabre “game,” but as Vice noted, tales of apples and women, especially within the religious sphere, haven’t been “entirely uplifting.”

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