What does " someone with a macabre sense of humor was playing a horrible, maniacal joke. " mean??
He moved past the slaughtered animals, feeling as though someone with a macabre sense of humor was playing a horrible, maniacal joke.

What does " someone with a macabre sense of humor was playing a horrible, maniacal joke. " mean in this context? Could you explain it to me?

Question

What does " someone with a macabre sense of humor was playing a horrible, maniacal joke. " mean??
He moved past the slaughtered animals, feeling as though someone with a macabre sense of humor was playing a horrible, maniacal joke.

What does " someone with a macabre sense of humor was playing a horrible, maniacal joke. " mean in this context? Could you explain it to me?

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"macabre"--horrible and associated with death

"maniacal"--insane, crazy, perhaps violent

It is as if the animals had been killed by a crazy person who thought that killing animals was funny.

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It means that the speaker felt that the scenes of slaughter that he witnessed were so surreal and unbelievable, and so incredibly cruel that it seemed like a terrible person playing a horrible joke.