The phrase "a dead house" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a house that is abandoned, lifeless, or devoid of activity or warmth.
Example: "After the family moved out, the once vibrant home became a dead house, filled with silence and dust."
Alternatives: "an abandoned house" or "a lifeless home".
But I secretly wanted to solve another mystery: was Clarens really a hospital, and was there really a dead house?
I learned early on that during the war the garage, which stood about 30 yards from our house, had served as a "dead house," a place where the bodies of Union soldiers were stored before burial.
I quickly discovered that none of the remaining records of the War Department mentioned Clarens or indicated that it was the hospital at Fort Williams, let alone that there was a dead house.
And strangely, the lack of hard evidence that Clarens functioned in the Civil War as a hospital or had a dead house has only strengthened my belief in the family lore that it did.
A prisoner may be a prisoner, but as Dostoevsky so pointedly wrote in Notes from a Dead House, "no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a man".
In one flashback we find out that when she and Henry first met, in the jail drunk- tank, she pronounced Henry dead: "Dead for 20 years, a dead man living in a dead house".
The 76-page report reads like the autopsy of a dead housing program, placing the blame for the program's paltry performance squarely on the Treasury Department, the government agency responsible for TARP and, in turn, the Hardest Hit program.
Jan Švankmajer's surrealist 1988 film Alice takes place in a grim, dead house with peeling paint, menacing toothed beasts and threatening scissors and knives.
Table 12 Fields of hospital # Field name Field description 1. Id It states that every hospital is unique 2. Position It is located on a certain position 3. Hlocation It describes that the locations in a hospital are dead house or treatment rooms.
"People dump everything down the hollers -- a wooden leg, dead house pets," Mr. Bickford said.
Many centuries later, in Philadelphia, another young physician finds himself in the anatomy room of the Blockley Dead House in an atmospheric first novel, THE ANATOMY OF DECEPTION (Delacorte, $24), by Lawrence Goldstone.
