The fastest way I found to raise faction with the dead was by doing this quest:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=215
Words of Sufferring
Requires:
Iced Bone Chips -- Iced Bone Skeletons in the Everfrost cave where the Lich of Miragul resides
Globes of Fear -- Spectres in either Ocean of Tears or Oasis of Marr (Do not drop in Feerrott)
Star Rose Quartz -- Vendor