“The Loved Dead” originally published in Weird Tales, May-June-July 1924 It is midnight. Before dawn they will find me and take me to a black cell where I shall languish interminably, while insatiable desires gnaw at my vitals and wither up my heart, till at last I become one with the dead that I love. My seat is the fetid hollow of an aged grave; my desk is the back of a fallen…