![]() ![]() The character of Herbert West returned to popular media in the Stuart Gordon film Re-Animator and its sequels, starring Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West in Bride of Re-Animator. In Lovecraft's tale, Herbert West was ostracized by his fellow medical students because he believed he could overcome death and had only one friend: the unnamed narrator of the story. However, most subjects that have undergone the " re-animation" process have turned violent and, after failed attempts to return to their own graves, have terrorized the communities into which they were reanimated. Herbert West is the inventor of a special solution that when injected into a main artery of a recently deceased person causes the body's mechanical, living functions to return. There have been several film adaptations of the story including Herbert West as played by Jeffrey Combs in the Re-Animator (film series) which include the 1985 Re-Animator film and its two sequels, Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator. Lovecraft for his short story " Herbert West-Reanimator", first published in 1922. ![]() Herbert West is a fictional character created by H. Cover art for ReAnimator #1 (April 2015) by Jae Lee. ![]()
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