grotesquerie

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An instance of grotesqueness, a grotesque thing.
2. (countable, uncountable)Grotesque things collectively.
3. (countable, uncountable)Grotesqueness, 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.”

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