A wonderful sequel to Herbert West: Reanimator

If you've ever read the story of Dr. Herbert West, who discovers a liquid that can raise the dead with varying degrees of their mind intact, then you might be like me and want to know what happened after West went missing at the hand of his own creations. This novel gives you that answer. Told from the perspective of a fellow student of West's, also hailing from Miskatonic U, the novel tells you the events surrounding the famous story by H.P. Lovecraft. Out of a personal dislike of West, the narrator has intentionally meddled with his formula and is on the way to perfect the serum when the usual disasters strike that always seem to crop up where the green gloing liquid gets injected into soon no longer dead tissue. The author manages to convinvingly recreate the style of Lovecraft's contemporaries without leaning too hard into the purple prose the original author was sometimes known for. There are also plenty of cameos of and alternate explanations for characters and phenomena in Lovecraft's (and Derleth's, and so on) canon, but also other characters from then contemporary fiction you might not expect turn out to be woven into the setting. Let's just say when a certain Vicomte the Chagny was mentioned I felt my ears prick up and wasn't disappointed, but was not at all ready how the character would wind assuming the identity of another well-known person from the Cthulhu Mythos. The story never grows dull and keeps you hooked, leaving you always wanting for more. Shame that the apparent sequel, Reanimatrix, wasn't turned into an audiobook by Audible... yet.

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