Word: morbidness
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...true novel of the South, neither morbid nor sentimental...
...Such works, and those of Faulkner and T. S. Stribling, while they may not be libel, betray a morbid mental state on the part of the authors: The South has no monopoly of insanity, race conflict, incest...
...lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest in him. When he needs an alibi for the murder of Angie, she supplies it. A mild fable with a morbid personnel, Midnight Alibi is impaired rather than improved by Richard Barthelmess, who makes grotesque faces when he tries to talk tough out of the corner of his mouth...
...resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...
When one settles down to read a magazine such as TIME after a day of more or less hard work, he doesn't desire or expect to be faced with this type of morbid literature. Coming upon it unexpectedly, he is left in a rather peculiar state of mind, a state of mind that can be achieved by reading any number of cheaper publications. At least, he should be able to expect well-written informative material, and he should be able to feel satisfied that he is better off for having read...