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tale, for all its Grand
Guignol excess, still strikes a chilling chord after many years and deserves its place as the best of 1924. One challenge in assembling this collection was to disregard the notoriety of certain tales and evaluate whether or not a story really deserved to be considered the 'best' of a given year. In the case of C. M. Eddy's story, it managed to be both."
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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. Robert
Weinberg described "The Loved Dead" as an "over-written and minor" story. John Pelan wrote, "This shuddery
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that features explicitly gruesome passages of the kind found in "The Loved Dead", and as a result several of
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