Herbert West: Reanimator
by H. P. Lovecraft

The waiting was gruesome, but West never faltered. West told me how he had obtained the specimen. Herbert West needed fresh bodies because his life-work was the reanimation of the dead. Dr. West’s reanimated specimens were not meant for long existence or a large audience. The specimen, as West repeatedly observed, had a splendid nervous system. I was West’s closest friend and only confidential assistant. This need for very fresh corpses had been West’s moral undoing. West was not even excited now. West did not resist or utter a sound. West was gone.

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