Talk:Herbert West–Reanimator

message: What about a plot summary? That's what I came here looking for, because I recall that in the end Herbert West was no kind of re-animator and it was the narrator who turned out to be insane and, it was implied, murderous. So, wikipedia, is that what happened? Does memory serve me?24.14.242.98 01:23, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot summary

message: This depiction is uncannily similar to the famous Romero zombies and other latter-day zombie interpretations that would follow in later decades.
Um, yeah, because something written in the '20s couldn't possibly inspire a filmmaker decades later, could it?
Anybody have problems with this being re-written?
:Or you could just remove it. It doesn't add anything to the lead. If someone could find a source whereby Romero or someone else says it was an influence then add it back in in a section on works it has influenced (although my understanding is that it was EC Comics and the fifties and sixties zombie movies that influenced Romero - they may have their roots in this story but again that'd be me speculating until someone could source it). (Emperor 00:45, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can I get concurrance this is a silly statement? 

message: Is nobody going to mention that this story is one of the most cringe-inducing examples of Lovecraft's well-documented racism?  Seriously.  The description of the black boxer is pretty straightforward in its assertion that black people are animals.  It should at least get a mention.
MosKillinest (talk) 21:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Um hello, Racism?

message: There were many errors in the articles about the book (summarizing each chapter). For instance, in the chapter "The Horror From the Shadows", "Lt. Clapman-Lee" never existed. The actual name was "Major Eric Moreland Clapman-Lee". The man who was only mentioned as a lieutenant in the chapter was "Lt. Ronald Hill" who was killed in the crash of the airplane. I've also reworded some of the things in the article about the characters (once again, Clapman-Lee) and in the final chapter of the book "The Tomb-Legions".
VonV (talk) 00:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details of the Story have been Revised 

message: The article cites S.T. Joshi as saying this is "universally acknowledged as Lovecraft's poorest work," and provides a valid reference. But Joshi himself seems to have revised his opinion of the Herbert West tales over the years. In the Penguin Books edition of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales (1999), Joshi writes: "In other ways the story builds up a certain cumulative power and suspense, and it is by no means Lovecraft's poorest fictional work." (p375).
PCM2 (talk) 23:08, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lovecraft's poorest work? 

message: Why is the image for this article a Weird Tales cover? The article says the story was published in Home Brew. Weird Tales isn't mentioned once in the text of the article, and I don't see any evidence that it was ever published there. Webster100 (talk) 20:32, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In the lower lefthand corner of the cover it says, "A NEW LOVECRAFT SERIES Herbert West: Reanimator". Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:31, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird Tales? 

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message: I don't see how the character Herbert West passes WP:NFICTION for a stand-alone article; that article is basically a fork of this one and should be merged here. Thoughts? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:15, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 11:50, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge from [[Herbert West]]

message: Do we need to be told twice? 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:BDD0:36E8:B12D:355C (talk) 12:04, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  West as portrayed by Jeffrey Combs was selected by Empire magazine as the 42nd greatest horror film character,