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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“HERBERT WEST – REANIMATOR” BY H.P. LOVECRAFT #WeirdDarkness #ThrillerThursday

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Check out the other podcasts I host at https://weirddarkness.com/links. PLEASE SHARE THIS EPISODE in your social media so others who loves strange and macabre stories can listen too!
IN THIS EPISODE: The story was written as a serial, published one chapter at a time from October 1921 to June 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. And because it was written during this time, you will hear language not considered politically correct today – particularly that of words used to describe people of color. But as I have done in the past, I am leaving it all intact to preserve the author’s words in their original form, and so we never forget our sometimes horrible history.

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “Re-Animator: Tales of Herbert West” by H.P. Lovecraft: https://amzn.to/3Oc1V2s
BOOK: “Warm Bodies” by Isaac Marion: https://amzn.to/44UWEne
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46

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audiences only. Parental this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories

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of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, strange and bizarre,

1:17.8

crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, unsolved, and unexplained.

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Coming up in this episode, it's Thriller Thursday, and this week it's a classic tale from

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HP Lovecraft entitled Herbert West Reanimator.

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Herbert West is perhaps the best known of Lovecraft's human characters.

1:40.3

Most people upon hearing the word reanimator will automatically think of the film from 1985 of the same name based upon the story you're about to hear, but loosely based, very loosely based. They went more in a comedy direction with the film. Some believe

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Lovecraft did intend his original story to be a parody of Frankenstein. But it doesn't really feel like a parody,

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at least to the extent that parodies are supposed to be funny.

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Also Herbert West is the antithesis of Victor Frankenstein.

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Whereas Mary Shelley's scientist is mad only to the extent he is prone to wild flights of passionate emotion and expressing himself in florid romantic speeches, Herbert West

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is hyper-rational, dispassionate, amoral, and unsanimental.

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