Daniel Cain

Daniel "Dan" Cain is a character created by H. P. Lovecraft for his 1922 short story "Herbert West--Reanimator", although, being the narrator of the work, his name never entered into the text. He was first given the name Dan Cain in Stuart Gordon's 1985 low-budget film adaptation Re-Animator; since then, many authors have adopted this as his de facto title.
==In Lovecraft's Work==
In "Herbert West--Reanimator", the narrator is the assistant to gifted medical student (later medical practitioner) Herbert West. Himself a qualified physician, Cain accompanies West for many years, even going as far as to follow him into the armed forces and on to the fighting in France during World War I, witnessing all of West's triumphs and setbacks and, eventually, his apparent downfall.
==In the Expanded Mythos==
===Re-Animator Franchise===
Cain was a struggling medical student forced to take in lodger Herbert West. As time passed, he became involved with West's experiments and was instrumental in defeating an uprising of animated corpses, although he lost his fiancé in the process. He attempted to revive her using the reagent, and was apparently successful, but dire complications were suggested (: Re-Animator).
Later, Cain and West attempted to give Megan, the deceased woman, a proper reanimation, but after a successful procedure discards his former love for a new girlfriend. After battling another horde of zombies, Cain and partner escape; he is never seen again, and what became of him later in the series is unknown (: Bride of Re-Animator).
Daniel Cain was portrayed by American actor Bruce Abbott Re-Animator at iMDB.
===Peter Rawlik===
In Peter Rawlik's Reanimator writings, Cain's life follows the same path as it did in the events of "Herbert West--Reanimator", and he later spent a period of time in a mental health institution after witnessing his friend's abduction by animated corpses. Later, when West returns from his sojourn amongst the living dead, he injected his assistant with a sample of the reagent, causing a drastic change in the man (: Reanimators).
==References==
Category:Characters Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works
Category:Humans