Name: Herbert West
ISBN: 9781539178187

Lovecraft Howard Phillips

Herbert West: Reanimator is a horror story in six chapters written by HP Lovecraft in 1922. The second chapter, The demon of the plague was originally published in a journal of the time as short story autoconclusivo, but was later followed by other chapters , which explains that each is an individual story about the adventures of the protagonist. The story recounts the results of the research of Dr. Herbert West over death and resuscitation of bodies, from his student days in the fictional Miskatonic University until shortly after the First World War.

Reanimator

Herbert West

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. He has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of Enlightenment, Romanticist, and Christian humanism. Lovecraft s protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft s readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.

Scott Wilks

Rating All 19 Lovecraft Stories Within the Necronomicon (Audible Audio Book) ~ Part 2 - Herbert West: Reanimator.

 BEFORE YOU START: These stories were originally written as a series in February through July 1922 in the publication Home Brew.

So, keep this in mind when reading, there are a lot of retellings to earlier events in the story because of this and the pacing is affected because of it.

That aside, however, the story is great, not the usual Eldritch horror of Lovecraft but something more familiar for fans of Hammer Horror.

Disturbing and gory, although it may not the best of Lovecraft's tales, it is able to stand with it's head held high with the hard hitters.

Herbert West Reanimator

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