Ramoncin t1_jac9axj wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:57 AM

Two lesser known ones:

The Loved Dead: A confession from a sexual deviant, who feels his capture is inminent. He recaps the origins of his obsession with the dead as well as the consequences it had on his life.

This one is a rarity because Lovecraft showed little interest for sensuality in his writing. I'm also told it caused quite the controversy when it was published in Weird Tales.

The mound: The complete version of this one didn't appear until 1989, and it could be considered a short novel on its own right. Apparently Lovecraft was hired as a ghostwriter with the instructions to write about a mound in the west haunted by a headless ghost. Lovecraft used this only a bookend, making the mound the entrance to a subterranean civilization. It's little known, but it's likely my favorite Lovecraft story.

KamaandHallie OP t1_jac9xdz wrote on February 28, 2023 at 12:04 PM

I've heard of The Mound, but I have never heard of The Loved Dead, it's not in any of the six Lovecraft books I own and barely appears in websites of his bibliography.

Ramoncin t1_jacaehs wrote on February 28, 2023 at 12:09 PM

Then the scandal it caused must have been bigger than I expected. I was lucky enough to put my hands on an antology that contained both The mound and The loved dead, but it was in Spanish.

https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-el-museo-de-los-horrores/9788476407547/155642