He admits that few theatregoers would know that they were passing over bones from the charnel house, for instance.

He begins with a shocking account of the raiding of a famous charnel house at St.

It was originally a 'charnel house' used to keep bones which were disturbed by fresh burials in the adjacent churchyard.

Of the event, Daniel wrote: "Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.

The Rev Patrick Taylor explained how it was believed the writer had his grave inscribed with the curse because he was "petrified" his remains might be moved to a nearby charnel house, which lies behind a church door just a yard or two from the grave.

From the opening sequence, we find ourselves thrust into Saul's mad, murderous, mystifying, maze-like world, a 24-7 death factory, a charnel house built on a scale scarcely conceivable ...

Blatter surely knows about the skeletons hidden at the back of FIFA's cupboards and if he steps down - or is thrown out - new brooms could make FIFA's Zurich HQ look like a charnel house.

Next comes "The Charnel House," dealing with the initial forays of the film's teenage protagonists into the house containing the cannibal family.

Military forensic officers placed the remains in dark brown coffins after a ceremony watched by Chinese officials and South Korean army Brigadier General Moon Sang-Gyu at a temporary charnel house in Paju just south of the border with North Korea.

But the Blitz segments vibrate with life, as vivid and horrifying as a series of glimpses into a charnel house." STEVE DONOGHUE

Prosecutors said Gosnell's legitimate-sounding Women's Medical Society was in fact a "baby charnel house", in which fetal remains were left scattered around in freezers, bags and jars.

Unknown to the villains, inside the debris of the charnel house is Gerard Butler, a disgraced former presidential guard who is pretty handy with his fists, a gun and just about any weapon that comes to hand.

Their emphasis here is not just on the fruit of the dark-seething sea but also on the physical labor and endurance required to maintain a seagoing charnel house. It's nearly forty-five minutes before a human face comes into focus; the movie is all but over before you hear something like a human conversation.

By the end of that month, Fort Devens was a charnel house filled with the dead and dying.

Couldn't help thinking Tony Blair might usefully divert some of the millions he's raked in since he and his big pal George turned Iraq into a charnel house into making these innocent children's lives that wee bit easier.