![]() John Pelan wrote, "This shuddery tale, for all its Grand Guignol excess, still strikes a chilling chord after many years and deserves its place as the best of 1924. ![]() Robert Weinberg described "The Loved Dead" as an "over-written and minor" story. Ramsey Campbell wrote in 1969 that this story consisted of "ludicrous melodrama" and that it was a "distastefully sensationalist revision" He later modified this view in a revision of his 1969 article. ![]() Lovecraft Encyclopedia reports that "it elicited a protest from authorities in Indiana, who sought to have the issue banned." The incident is said to have made editor Farnsworth Wright leery of accepting submissions from Lovecraft with "explicitly gruesome passages". Robert Weinberg has disputed this, saying he was unable to find evidence of such withdrawals. According to Eddy, copies of Weird Tales had to be withdrawn from sale in many places. At the end of the story, with police hot on his trail, he commits suicide.ĭue to the tale's grisly subject matter, style and descriptiveness, it caused a storm of controversy. He works for one Mortuary/Undertaker after another, in order to be near corpses. He describes his repressive childhood and what drove him to commit these crimes. The plot centres around an unnamed narrator living in the rural village of Fenham who is a necrophile. ![]()
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