unpleasant and strange because connected with death and frightening things 可怕的，恐怖的（尤指与死亡等相联系的） a macabre tale/joke/ritual 令人毛骨悚然的故事／笑话／仪式
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMacabre is used with these nouns:- tale
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French macabre, from Danse Macabre ‘dance of death’, from Old French, perhaps from Macabé ‘a Maccabee’, with reference to a miracle play depicting the slaughter of the Maccabees.