grotesquerie

The quality of being grotesque or macabre.

She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

The tone is brittle and morbid, emphasizing the eerie grotesquerie of Albert Giraud's poems.

A genre of horror literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and Fritz Leiber.