a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones.
a grisly murder.
ghastly shrieks.
ghastly wounds.
gruesome evidence of human sacrifice.
macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages.
macabre tortures conceived by madmen.
the grim aftermath of the bombing.
the grim task of burying the victims.
the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs.