![]() ![]() It is harder to pin down when the queer interpretations began. Herbert West has become one of Lovecraft’s breakout characters. It inspired a franchise of movies, a novelization, comic books, merchandise, and stories chronicling the further adventure of the reanimator, his foes and rivals. The film, with the iconic performance by Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and the glowing green reanimation agent, was a smash success. From there it entered the domain of reprints, and it became the basis for the 1985 film Reanimator. Commercial hack work, and Lovecraft knew it it would not be published again until Lovecraft was safely dead and beyond objecting. Lovecraft’s first commercial work went into print: six brief tales of gruesome mad science, for which he was to be paid five dollars an episode. In 1922, before Weird Tales had ever hit the stands, H. How do you go about queering Herbert West? Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities. Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is greater. ![]() While he was with me, the wonder and diabolism of his experiments fascinated me utterly, and I was his closest companion. ![]()
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