The Disinterment

The Disinterment is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel, although Rimel later disavowed the collaboration.
== Synopsis==
The story tells of a leprosy sufferer, who, instead of living with the debilitating condition, opts for death and resurrection at the hands of a witch doctor.
The sufferer contracts the disease whilst nursing his brother, also a leper, in the Philippines. Since leprosy, if discovered, would condemn the man to a lifetime of exile in a leper colony in appalling conditions, he embarks on a wild plan to conceal his condition and find an exotic "cure" with the help of his longtime friend who is a doctor of medicine and also an occultist. The story becomes a kind of reversal of Herbert West--Reanimator, told from the point of view of the victim, rather than the doctor...
== Publication History ==
"The Disinterment" was first published in the January 1937 edition of pulp magazine Weird Tales. It has since been reissued many times, and has been translated into both Portuguese and German.
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