Reanimators

Reanimators is a novel by American author Pete Rawlik, first published by Night Shade Books in June 2013, as a paperback Reanimators at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database; digital and audiobook versions were released in August of that year Reanimators > Editions at Goodreads. The book was followed by a sequel of sorts, the Lovecraftian mash-up The Weird Company, in 2014.
==Synopsis==
When his parents are murdered at the hands of a rampaging, reanimated Allan Halsey, gifted medical student Stuart Hartwell vows his revenge on mad scientists Herbert West and Daniel Cain.
First obtaining his medical degree and establishing his practice, he begins to investigate the processes employed by West and Cain in their work, becoming a reanimator whose skill surpasses that of his nemeses, and even managing to systematically sabotage their researches.
As the years pass, Hartwell's lust for vengeance waxes and wanes, and he is frequently distracted from his purpose by encounters with other characters from H. P. Lovecraft's fiction, his story weaving an interlinking narrative through many of his most popular works.
==Genesis==
Author Pete Rawlik originally intended to write a novel mixing many aspects of Lovecraft's fiction, with Herbert West as a central character. However, his devotion to established timelines meant that he was unable to pursue this line of writing, and so he created a new character instead: Dr. Stuart Hartwell. This gave him a very similar character with which to do as he pleased Peter Rawlik "About the Author" page at Amazon.
The original idea of a "mash-up" novel was later completed as the sequel to Reanimators, The Weird Company .
==Behind the Mythos==
Some of the characters encountered by Hartwell include Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee ("The Shadow Out of Time"), Dr. Muñoz ("Cool Air"), Wilbur and Lavinia Whateley and their father ("The Dunwich Horror"), Frank Elwood ("The Dreams in the Witch-House"), Erich Zann ("The Music of Erich Zann"), and many others.
Despite casting West and Cain in the roles of villainous - and occasionally incompetent - mad scientists, one chapter shows the two doing some real good in the hospitals of World War I France, and it is noted that their motives are generally well-intentioned, even if their methods may be at best morally grey.
==References==
Category:Peter Rawlik works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Novels
Category:Ebooks