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Marlo DianneHerbert West: Reanimator - Part 1 - From the Dark by H. P. Lovecraft

This a Forbidden Dragon recording. Read by Marlo Dianne.

"Of Herbert West, who was my friend in college and in after life, I can speak only with extreme terror. This terror is not due altogether to the sinister manner of his recent disappearance, but was engendered by the whole nature of his life-work, and first gained its acute form more than seventeen years ago, when we were in the third year of our course at the Miskatonic University Medical School in Arkham. While he was with me, the wonder and diabolism of his experiments fascinated me utterly, and I was his closest companion. Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is greater. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities..."

Convinced that death is merely mechanical failure, and that they can find a chemical mechanism to reboot the machine, West and our nameless narrator, are on the hunt for bodies--the fresher, the better. Through graveyards and laboratories, they want to find death, chase it, trap it, prod it, and defeat it. But when you chase something to within arm's reach, it can reach back...

Published in 1922 as a six part serial, Herbert West: Reanimator is a classic story of sci-fi and horror by H. P. Lovecraft. Atmosphere, language, and science blend effortlessly, timeless in this gruesome tale of a doctor of death.


This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio

Artist/Composer: Marlo Dianne
Keywords: lovecraft; classic; recording; audio; audio book; free audio book; marlo dianne; forbidden dragon; forbidden dragon recording; herbert west; reanimator; horror; horror classic; classic horror; scifi; scifi classic; classic scifi

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Reviewer: GM Arnold Raleigh NC - - November 29, 2007
Subject: A great read
I enjoyed this audio book immensely. The reader, Ms. Diane, obviously is aware of HPL's work and renders it with a perfect undertone of creepiness. Highest rating.