It bases some of its narrative around Lovecraft's novella Herbert West–Reanimator, also containing elements from the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.
In the 1985 film adaptation, the character is (ostensibly) named Dan Cain (played by Bruce Abbott).
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An audiobook version of the story, published in 1999, is performed by Jeffrey Combs, who played Herbert West in the three film versions.
Herbert West–Reanimator, a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written 1921-1922
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The cult, headed by a mysterious figure called Docktor Kaul is using the stolen technology of Herbert West (the re-animator) combined with arcane mythos magic to build an undead army from the victims of the Great War as part of a larger plot to eliminate humanity from earth to clear it for a new hybrid species of part human, part Star Spawn of Cthulhu.
Through HACK/Slash storylines, Ms. Stone has drawn numerous pop-culture characters including Reanimator
Re-Animator: The Musical, an American rock musical based on the 1985 film
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Re-Animator, a 1985 film, the first in a series of films based on the H.P. Lovecraft story Herbert West–Reanimator