The original story, published as six parts in Weird Tales magazine. So let’s take a look at the Re-Animator through popular culture.Ī note: while I’ve been mulling over this sort of post for some time as an outlet for my obsessive researching tendencies, it still seems only right that I tip my hat to Lindsay Ellis’ excellent Loose Canon series, which takes a similar investigative tack. And, well, I haven’t seen anyone else try to catalogue that impressive body of work yet. West’s quest to defeat death has made quite the hallmark on western culture (and beyond). At the same time, those six serial shorts went on to birth the single most successful Lovecraft adaptation and the most memorable, longlasting character not sleeping in R’lyeh or bound in human flesh. Lovecraft himself didn’t even think much of them – by which I mean he loathed them utterly, and mostly used them to bring in a paycheck from Weird Tales and take pot shots at that upstart lady writer’s new hit Frankenstein. Lovecraft nerds love to turn up their noses at the Herbert West – Reanimator” stories, declaring them the weakest point in the author’s body of work. Herbert West’s longevity is something of a marvel.
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