**edited 11/28/13 
 Macabre (adj,noun). From the French Danse Macabre. 
 1. Characterized by or suggestive of the gruesomeness of the danse macabre; grim, horrific, repulsive, bizarre, grotesque. 
 2. The Book of Lost Things. 
 The Book of Lost Things is what you might get if you locked Neil Gaiman and Guillermo del Toro into a dank, windowless room, forced them to read through the complete output of Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, and the Brothers Grimm, and then told them to rewrite The Chronicles of Narnia. 
 ...And that's all I'm going to post here. 
 The rest of my (rather verbose) review is posted over here at Booklikes. 
 Why? Because I strongly disapprove of GoodReads' new policy of censorship. 
 (The link brings you to a summary of The Story So Far, which has facts and links so you can make up your own mind about the GR debacle.)