A ministry of mushrooms might be going too far - but an interest that goes a beyond reading macabre tales of agonising death is not.

Cemeteries around the state are the places where you'll find the most macabre tales, chilling stories of grave robberies - and vandalism.

How could I have uncovered such a macabre tale?

Much of the mundane landscape has now become part of a macabre tale that will be told again and again.

Polidori decided that we should have a competition, and each write a macabre tale.

Murder at Midnight was an old-time radio show featuring macabre tales of suspense, often with a supernatural twist.

Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

The world of the bomb makers is a place where people exchange macabre tales they wish they did not believe.

If this film sounds suspiciously like a classic occupation thriller, the director turns it inside out into a macabre tale of betrayal and infamy.

The story in question, The Driver, was a macabre tale of a chauffeur demolishing the car he doesn't own.