![]() Partly it was the police he feared but sometimes his nervousness was deeper and more nebulous, touching on certain indescribable things into which he had injected a morbid life, and from which he had not seen that life depart. West, in reality, was more afraid than I for his abominable pursuits entailed a life of furtiveness and dread of every shadow. I wonder even now if it could have been other than a daemoniac dream of delirium. Dr Herbert Wests modest ambition is to revive the dead.A gifted vivisector, he obtains. ![]() West’s sole absorbing interest was a secret study of the phenomena of life and its cessation, leading toward the reanimation of the dead through injections of an excitant solution. Lovecrafts Herbert West Re-Animator in Latin. The essence of Herbert West’s existence was a quest amid black and forbidden realms of the unknown, in which he hoped to uncover the secret of life and restore to perpetual animation the graveyard’s cold clay. West is obsessed with the idea that death is misunderstood as the end of mortality, convinced that it is merely a dormant state of retardation of essential functions of the body which can potentially be re-animated. The next night devils danced on the roofs of Arkham, and unnatural madness howled in the wind. Herbert West is a brilliant, but disturbed man whom the narrator met when both were med students in college. ![]() Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities. Excerpts from Herbert West-Reanimator by H.P. ![]()
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