Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
Dreadfully.
A shocking or sensational crime.
A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
Of or pertaining to ghouls.
Fascinated by corpses.