Many of his songs contained themes with a morbid or sexual twist in them.

He had always had a morbid fascination with death and dead bodies, and left explicit instructions to embalm his corpse.

The necromancer might also surround himself with morbid aspects of death, which often included wearing the deceased's clothing and consuming foods that symbolized lifelessness and decay such as unleavened black bread and unfermented grape juice.

By the 15th century these could be extremely morbid and explicit, reflecting an increased obsession with death and decay also seen in the Ars moriendi, Danse Macabre, and the overlapping motif of the Memento mori.

She has a morbid fascination with death and keeps exotic pet animals, including a ferret named Daisy and an Egyptian cobra named Barney.

By the 19th century, tansy was used so much at New England funerals that people began to disdain it for its morbid association with death.

Quiroga's morbid obsession with torment and death is much more easily accepted by the characters than by the reader: in the narrative technique the author uses, he presents players accustomed to risk and danger, playing by clear and specific rules.

Although widely regarded as pioneers of the grindcore genre, their early work was also tagged as splatter death metal, hardgore, and goregrind ; on account of their morbid lyrics and gruesome album covers.

" The Fatalities are usually lethal, featuring a brutal and morbid execution of the defenseless enemy character ; however, some of them are actually non-violent and humorous, and some even result in the suicidal death of the losing character.

A morbid curiosity is an example of addictive curiosity, the object of which is death, violence, or any other event that may cause harm physically or emotionally ( see also: snuff film ), the addictive emotion being explainable by meta-emotions exercising pressure on the spontaneous curiosity itself.

Part of this manifests as diary filled with morbid imaginings ; George Stacy reads an account of his Earth-616 death, along with the fate of his daughter.

Eileen, having a morbid fascination with death inspired by the hanging of Ruth Ellis, once cajoled her school-mate Murray into trying to strangle her and this is the guilty secret that Murray is trying to hide before it destroys his career.

The lyrics, which told of the death of a teenage girl, were deemed by British radio stations to be too morbid to be aired, but it reached # 37 on the UK Singles Chart.

In Una ragazza normale and Detesto il soft the subjects of sexuality and death are addressed in a fascinating morbid way.

Yager's death certificate lists kidney failure as the cause of death, with morbid obesity and multiple organ failure as contributing causes.

On the morning of the funeral, the police were needed to control a large crowd of onlookers who gathered at Taylor's house, swarming around the waiting hearse in morbid curiosity.

“ One would ," he wrote, " have to listen to Wagner in a funeral parlour for something even more morbid than Thunderclap Newman ’ s ‘ Accidents ’, which chronicles the deaths of various hapless children who all meet a very nasty end – Poor Mary falls in a river whilst waiting for the Queen to sail by and little Johnny is killed by a speeding car.

Poetry was for him ...' a morbid secretion ', as the pearl is for the oyster.

In particular their work is based on mystic, morbid and romantic motifs.

Gothic fashion is stereotyped as a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress.

* In The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, the clown-magician Horrabin is introduced performing a morbid version of the Punch story.

A phobia ( from the, Phóbos, meaning " fear " or " morbid fear ") is, when used in the context of clinical psychology, a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.

Rado concluded that pursuing the genital organs of the opposite sex is the standard form of achieving genital stimulation and that the main cause of homosexuality is anxiety, although he granted that " constitutional factors may have an influence on morbid sex developments.

Elmore Leonard, every day I wake up and – not to be morbid or anything, although morbid is my life to a degree – don't see his obituary in the paper, I think to myself, " Great!

Triskaidekaphobia ( from Greek tris meaning " 3 ", kai meaning " and ", deka meaning " 10 " and phobia meaning " fear " or " morbid fear ") is fear of the number ; it is a superstition and related to a specific fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.

Prader – Willi syndrome is also frequently associated with an extreme and insatiable appetite, often resulting in morbid obesity.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this is derived from humorism and " the notion of the ' dropping ' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints ".

The Osteographia of the first-mentioned was of much use in directing attention to the study of the skeleton and the morbid changes to which it is liable.

Filmed with a morbid nostalgia for swastikas, showbiz glitz and as a cloak-and-dagger romance, the main theme of Lili Marleen is the question: is it morally justifiable to survive under National Socialism, as does the naïve singer by having a successful career?

For not to look it is impossible ... No purpose is gained by this morbid exhibition, no lesson taught — the painter shows his skill and the spectators ' gorge rises at it — that is all.

It is also where the film Grosse Pointe Blank takes place, which stars John Cusack as a hitman who attends his ten year high school reunion ; this is perhaps intended as a morbid parody of the John Hughes high school films that Cusack starred in.

There is also a related figure lifetime morbid risk-the theoretical prevalence at any point in life for anyone, regardless of time of assessment.

Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Goth subculture ; a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress.

It's a morbid romanticism, but there is something attractive about that.

Anonymity is not always found in such morbid situations, however.

“ Delusions of infidelity exist without any other psychopathology and may be considered to be morbid jealousy in its ‘ purest ’ form ” ( Kingham and Gordon ).

Mullen ( 1990 ) considered morbid jealousy to be associated with four features:

[...] Sterilization policies were always associated with the therapeutic and regenerative principles of the biomedical vision: with the “ purification of the national body ” and the " eradication of morbid hereditary dispositions .” Sterilization was considered part of “ negative eugenics ” [...]

In painting, symbolism can be seen as a revival of some mystical tendencies in the Romantic tradition, and was close to the self-consciously morbid and private decadent movement.

:* Medical history: organic causes which may be responsible for the morbid jealousy

It has also been recorded by Cobb ( 1979 ) “ that morbid jealousy may be present with all types of cerebral insult or injury .”

The obsessional disorder at the core of morbid jealousy to be a ‘ true rarity ’.

Similar styles and mannerisms can be found in many of his characters as well as running gags and common themes, including repeated references to moose, meat, bees, chihuahuas, monkeys, tacos, pigs, cheese, morbid obesity and " dookie ".

Bosley Crowther stated that nearly every Western cliche could be found in this " egregiously synthetic but engrossingly morbid, violent film.

Morgagni, in the preface to his own work, discusses the defects and merits of the Sepulchrelum: it was largely a compilation of other men's cases, well and ill authenticated ; it was prolix, often inaccurate and misleading from ignorance of the normal anatomy, and it was wanting in what would now be called objective impartiality a quality which was introduced as decisively into morbid anatomy by Morgagni as it had been introduced two centuries earlier into normal human anatomy by Vesalius.

It is then found that the actuator has been used to give Agent X morbid obesity by scientists experimenting with the actuator, and that it can not be removed by the actuator.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals accused producers of pandering to a “ morbid and sordid fascination with farm animals ” while PETA and Mediawatch-uk demanded the show be taken off the air.

John Brown returned as the morbid counseling undertaker Digby ( Digger ) O ' Dell (" Cheerio, I'd better be ... shoveling off "; " Business is a little dead tonight ").

In the 2000s the game became infamous in online gaming circles when a prototype screenshots of a Japanese Famicom began circulating, showing that the game was originally intended to be much darker and more morbid than the relatively light-hearted version that was ultimately released to American and European gamers.

" The album was released in November and titled Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding, which was a parody of albums that featured morbid names: ", or killing, or bleeding ," Scogin explained, " just sort of thought it would be a breath of fresh air to name our CD the exact opposite of all that.

To make this rewrite theory a bit less morbid, we can alter some of our rewrite rules a bit, and make them conditional rewrite rules, which basically means they have to fulfill some criteria to be applied to the term ( other than just matching the left hand side of the rewrite rule ).

The remainder of the month was to be incredibly morbid.

Movie buff Theroux generally tries to maintain an air of wise-cracking, cool detachment which breaks down only when he is forced in " This Case to be Opened in a Million Years " to face his morbid fear of radioactivity.

Felix Vasquex Jr. of Cinema Craze said, " A very sleek and morbid short film, and one infinitely more enjoyable and tense than the sequel could be ..."