Since the farmhouse burned down, West has been unable to perform many of his experiments, and as college Dean Halsey refuses to allow him access to human cadavers and the university's dissection lab, his research has been stunted. Some time has elapsed since West and the narrator resurrected the corpse of the accident victim. The next day, however, the newspaper reads that a grave in potter's field had been molested violently the night before, with the claws of a beast.
West accidentally tips over a lantern on the way out and the farmhouse catches fire, and West and the narrator escape. Later, an inhuman scream is heard from within the room containing the corpse, which forces the two students to instinctively flee into the night. They take it back to the farmhouse and inject it with West's solution, but nothing happens. One night, West and the narrator steal a corpse of a construction worker who died that morning in an accident. West and the narrator go then into grave robbing for themselves. At first, they pay a group of men to rob graves for them, but none of the experiments are successful. The two men spirit away numerous supplies from the medical school and set up shop in an abandoned farmhouse. West realizes he must experiment on human subjects. The narrator goes on to explain how he met West when they were both young men in medical school, and the narrator became fascinated by West's theories, which postulated that the human body is simply a complex, organic machine, which could be "restarted." West initially tries to prove this hypothesis, but is unsuccessful. The narrator, a doctor who went to Miskatonic University medical school with the titular character, informs the reader that Herbert West has recently disappeared. Lovecraft was paid $5 for each installment of the story, the first money he received for his fiction.
1–6), a magazine published by his friend George Julian Houtain. Lovecraft originally serialised the story in Home Brew (Vol. Joshi claims that "Herbert West–Reanimator" is "universally acknowledged as Lovecraft's poorest work." Publication
The book Science Fiction-The Early YearsĬalls "Herbert West–Reanimator" "wretched work". He also had to begin each installment with a recap of the previous episode. Moreover, he disliked the requirement that each installment end with a cliffhanger, which was unlike his normal style. Lovecraft claimed to be unhappy with the work, writing it only because he was being paid five dollars for each installment. He drops in numerous Frankenstein references (even hinting at the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as Shelley did). 5.4 Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-LeeĪccording to his letters, Lovecraft wrote the story as a parody of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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