dead house
deadhouse

Get us out of this deadhouse before I shiver the skin right off my bones!"

Meaning "place where bodies are kept temporarily" first recorded 1865, a euphemism for earlier English term "deadhouse."

Whitman finds Dr. Woodhull in the deadhouse, weeping over one of the bodies.

Deadhouse Gates opens a few months after the events of Gardens of the Moon.

Deadhouse handy underneath.

Deadhouse Gates and Memories of Ice (1163-64, these two novels occur simultaneously)

He appears in Deadhouse Gates, House of Chains and The Bonehunters.

House of Chains (Starts a couple of years before Deadhouse Gates and goes to somewhat after.)

House of Chains takes place immediately after the events of Deadhouse Gates on the subcontinent of Seven Cities.

A dead house or deadhouse is a structure used for the temporary storage of a human corpse before burial or transportation, usually located within or near a cemetery.

Deadhouse Gates is the second novel in Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Deadhouse Gates follows on from the first novel, Gardens of the Moon and takes place simultaneously with events in the third novel Memories of Ice.

Not all cards are active on all continents; for example Obelisk is referred to as inactive on Seven Cities until partway through Deadhouse Gates.

More recently, a script has been in development entitled Chain of Dogs, which is essentially an adaptation of a major plot strand of the novel Deadhouse Gates.

THE DEADHOUSE, by Linda Fairstein.

The route stretches some twelve to fifteen miles and parties often took two days and a night to make the journey, leaving the corpse in the "deadhouse" at Blades (now ill ruins) overnight.

Memories of Ice is also a direct sequel to the first volume in the series, Gardens of the Moon, occurring chronologically at the same time as the second volume, Deadhouse Gates.

Unlike the previous book, which followed different groups of characters in close proximity to one another, the character threads in Deadhouse Gates are frequently separated by hundreds or thousands of miles at a time.

The continent of Quon Tali has been seen briefly in Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates, but is more thoroughly explored in Return of the Crimson Guard.

Currently, Baudin - first seen in Deadhouse Gates, where he is charged with the protection of Captain Ganoes Paran's and Adjunct Tavore Paran's sister Felisin by the latter.

The continent of Seven Cities is the setting for the novels Deadhouse Gates, House of Chains and The Bonehunters, and contains the Holy Desert Raraku where significant portions of the plot and history take place.

The divination also says that the Hold of the Azath stands besieged, which could be a reference to the Azath being literally besieged at the end of Deadhouse Gates, or to the slow death of the Azath in Lether.

As the novel ends Crokus, a Bridgeburner named Fiddler and the Bridgeburner assassin Kalam volunteer to take the former Sorry (now called Apsalar) back to her homeland of Itko Kan and they depart (their story continues in Deadhouse Gates).

In The Deadhouse Gates, the second book of the Malazan series, when Fiddler, Apsalar and others arrive in the Azath House on Malaz Island, they encounter a young woman who is placed in a sitting position at the bottom of a flight of stairs.

Whether it was an open field of battle where thousands had died by cannon, rifle, sword, and halberd or a small room where five or six had shot each other, it was the same place, always the same place in the end: another deadhouse, stinking of gunpowder and raw meat.