Stuart Hartwell

Dr. Stuart Hartwell is a fictional character created by American author Peter Rawlik for his Cthulhu Mythos stories, making his debut in the episodic novel Reanimators (2013, Night Shade Books).
==History==
===Reanimators===
Hartwell was a student and protégé of celebrated Miskatonic University physician Dr. Allan Halsey. When Halsey's corpse was reanimated by the misguided Herbert West, Hartwell's parents fell victim to the crazed beast during its murderous rampage. In the aftermath Hartwell, having deduced the cause of Halsey's condition, swore revenge on West.
In the following years, Hartwell obtained his medical degree and established himself as a respected practitioner, primarily through an association with neighbour Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee. However, this relationship soon soured when Peaslee's body was inhabited by the Yithian Mr. Ys, who coerced him into acting as his agent, and pressing him into his service with such other Mythos characters as Dr. Muñoz.
Despite these distractions, Hartwell remembered his vow and, although his zeal in pursuing his vengeance waxed and waned several times over the years, it was always in his mind. To this end, he developed an proficiency in the reanimation process; although this was initially solely for thwarting West, he soon came to be an accomplished practitioner in the art, his own versions of the reagent surpassing West's (although this may have been at least partially due to the acts of sabotage Hartwell enacted when West was absent from his laboratories).
===The Weird Company===
After the resolution of his oath against West, Hartwell returned to the life of a general practitioner, merely dabbling in the art of reanimation. This would change when he was recruited by the enigmatic Asenath Waite, who was assembling a team of uniquely-qualified individuals to combat the deadly threat posed by a colony of Shoggoths unleashed by the ill-fated Pabodie Expedition in 1931. Hartwell's iteration of the reagent, which is revealed to be strikingly similar to the blood of the Elder Things, proved instrumental in defeating the protean menaces.
Category:Characters Originating From Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Humans