ABATTOIR: a slaughterhouse

ABHORRENT: offensive or disgusting

ABERRANCE: deviating from what is normal

ANTHROPOPHAGY: cannibalism

APPALL: to fill with disgust or dismay

ATROCIOUS: extremely bad or cruel

BUTCHERMOBILE: any motor vehicle which yours cruelly is found driving

CADAVERIC: of or relating to a cadaver

CADAVEROUS: suggestive of a cadaver or death

CARRION: dead and decaying flesh

CEMETERIAL: of or related to a cemetery

CHARNEL: gruesomely suggestive of death or the dead

CHARNEL HOUSE: any place for the depositing of the bodies or bones of the dead; the abode of yours cruelly

CHUNKBLOWER: a term, coined by cult horror critic Chas Balun, for any film that is so extremely gory and gruesome as to cause vomiting, or the blowing of chunks

CREPUSCULAR: becoming alive at twilight; of or like twilight

CRYPTIC: secret or occult

DREAD: profound fear or terror; to be in a state of such

DREADFUL: extremely terrible or shocking

EERIE: causing unexplainable fear or dread

ELDRITCH: strange or unearthly

ENSANGUINED: to cover with blood

EXECRABLE: deserving of hate; extremely bad

EXHUME: to remove from or as if from a grave

FIEND: an extremely evil or wicked person; one who is addicted to or obsessed with something

FOETID: having an offensive odour

FUNERARY: of or relating to a funeral

FUNEREAL: see funerary

GHASTLY: causing shock or revulsion

GHOUL: a grave-robber; one who delights in the morbid

GIALLO: a cinematic genre of violent Italian thrillers, the term coined from yellow (giallo)-covered pulp fiction

GORE: blood, especially if coagulated

GRIM: forbidding; gloomy

GRISLY: shockingly repellent

GRUESOME: causing shock or repugnance

GROTESQUE: bizarrely distorted or unnatural in shape and size

GROTESQUERIE: something that is ludicrously distorted or unnatural

HIDEOUS: repulsive to the sight or the sensibilities

HORRENDOUS: causing fear or dread

HORROR: an extremely unpleasant feeling of abhorrence or fear

ICHOROUS: a watery discharge from a wound or ulcer

INIQUITOUS: characterized by wickedness

LOATHSOME: extremely offensive or repellent

LOATHY: see loathsome

LURID: causing shock or repulsion; characterized by sensationalism

LURK: to move in a secret or sneaky manner; to lie in wait

MACABRE: suggesting the horror of death and decay

MALEFIC: evil; malicious

MEATWAGON: see butchermobile

MOLDER: to decay or rot

MORBID: psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome

MORDANT: biting and caustic

MORIBUND: verging upon death; dying

NAMELESS: defying description; unexplainable

NECROPHAGY: feeding upon corpses or carrion

NECROPHILOUS: having a preference for dead tissue

NECROLATRY: the worship of the dead

NECROSIS: the death of cells or tissues through injury or disease

NOCTIFLORIOUS: flowering by night

NOISOME: offensive to the point of causing disgust

ODIOUS: causing or deserving of extreme displeasure

PERVERSE: departing from what is right and good

PESTILENTIAL: of, relating to, or likely to cause disease

PURULENT: discharging or causing the discharge of pus

PUSTULENT: causing the development of pustules

PUTRIFACTED: putrid

PUTRESCENT: becoming putrid

REPULSIVE: causing repugnance or disgust

SANGUINOLENT: coloured with blood

SARCOPHAGIC: flesh-eating

SEPULCHRAL: of or relating to a sepulcher; suggestive of the grave

SHUDDERSOME: causing to shudder from fear or revulsion

SPLATTERPUNK: a term coined for a mid-/late-80s subgenre of extremely graphic horror fiction, characterized by grisly and gross depictions of violence and sex and a subversive ethos

STYGIAN: dark and gloomy, as if of hell

TENEBROUS: dark and gloomy

TERROR: extremely oppressive fear or the ability to cause such.

THANATOLOGY: the study of death and dying

UNSPEAKABLE: unexplainably bad or offensive

VERMICIOUS: of or relating to worms

VERMICULOSE: infested with worms; wormy

VIDEO NASTY: a term originally coined in England in the 80s for any number of extremely shocking horror and exploitation films whose video cassette-releases were banned; now a reference to any film of such an infamous nature

WEIRD: of an unusual or unnatural character; of or relating to the supernatural

WRETCHED: contemptible; despicable