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Allan Halsey

Dr. Allan Halsey is the dean who prohibits Herbert West’s early experiments and later becomes one of their most terrible subjects. His service during Arkham’s typhoid epidemic and the fate of his reanimated body connect the sequence’s medical-school beginning with its final confrontation.

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Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee

Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee is the surgeon and fellow student of reanimation whose altered survival becomes Herbert West’s most consequential fear. His experiment in Flanders and the later appearance of a military figure with a wax head connect the wartime installment with the sequence’s ending.

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Herbert West

Herbert West is the physician whose experiments in chemical reanimation give his name to Lovecraft’s six-part Herbert West—Reanimator. His outwardly controlled manner conceals a progression from controversial research to grave robbery, murder and experiments on separated body parts, followed by the return of subjects he has failed to destroy.

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West and his student collaborator prepare a secret reanimation experiment.
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Herbert West—Reanimator

Herbert West—Reanimator is a six-part sequence tracing a physician’s attempts to restore movement and consciousness after death. First serialized in Home Brew from February to July 1922, it follows West and his unnamed assistant from medical school through a factory-town practice, wartime surgery and a final confrontation with the surviving products of their work.

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