Tonight we unseal the fifteenth vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with The Loved Dead—a tale so macabre it was nearly buried by the publishers themselves. The fog hangs heavy over the graveyard, and the hunger is not for life, but for what lingers after. The town is quiet, but the obsession is not. It stirs with midnight visits, whispered confessions, and a descent too twisted for daylight.🔮 Enter the Archive at http://tomebytomeasmr.com, where every ritual leads home:🗝️ Claim your Lovecraft Advent Calendar lockscreen💀 Ensure your name appears in November’s Call of Cthulhu tribute📜 Submit your original horror tale for the Anniversary Readings❤️ Lorekeepers (Patreon & YouTube Members) will be honored in the final roll—verified October 30, 2025In The Loved Dead, a narrator haunted by morbid desires descends into obsession and madness, drawn to the dead with a compulsion he cannot resist. Set in a fog-drenched New England town, the story unfolds as a confessional spiral—each graveyard visit more disturbing than the last, each encounter more grotesque.Co-written with C.M. Eddy Jr., this is widely considered one of Lovecraft’s most graphic and twisted tales. Its themes of necrophilia and psychological decay pushed the boundaries of pulp horror, even prompting some publications to reject it for its content. Though not part of the mythos, it lingers as a dark echo in Lovecraft’s legacy—a tale where dread is not cosmic, but deeply, viscerally human.Thank you for listening in the dark with me 🖤