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 continues his lifes work: the revival of the dead by purely. West, in reality, was more afraid than I for his abominable pursuits entailed a life of furtiveness and dread of every shadow. Herbert West, The Reanimator, returns Setting up shop in New Orleans, the brilliant Dr. I wonder even now if it could have been other than a daemoniac dream of delirium. 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. ( HPL: 'Herbert West-Reanimator') According to more recent accounts, he has brown hair. That was why, when establishing his practice in Bolton, he had chosen an isolated house near the potter’s field. He is a highly intelligent, unconventional and ruthless man. Herbert West, whose associate and assistant I was, possessed scientific interests far beyond the usual routine of a village physician. 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. Herbert West is 'a small, slender, spectacled youth with delicate features, yellow hair, pale blue eyes, and a soft voice'. The next night devils danced on the roofs of Arkham, and unnatural madness howled in the wind. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities. Excerpts from Herbert West-Reanimator by H.P.
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