![]() ![]() 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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