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Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre. -- Gore Vidal
I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. -- Jessica Mitford
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. -- Anthony Hecht
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? -- N. K. Jemisin
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. -- Paulo Coelho
I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along. -- Stephen King
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. -- Terry Tempest Williams
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 everyday life. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination. -- H. P. Lovecraft
I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while. -- Andres Serrano
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times. -- Rick Riordan
I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre. -- Nicolas Cage
People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher. -- Peter Cushing
Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older. -- Tippi Hedren
What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies. -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from. -- Dave Navarro
I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole. -- Lauren DeStefano
Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way. -- John Gimlette

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