waywardoctagon

A narrator/Herbert West ficlet for the Lovecraft story "Herbert West: Reanimator".  Because West wants Narrator's body. *** "...Don't you see--I've eliminated our main problem! That is--as long as we can find a very fresh corpse again, the compound will preserve it until we can go to work on it." At this point, I began to see what he was getting at, and to share in his enthusiasm, as fate had before conspired to deliver the very recently dead to us, but in that previous incident it had been some small amount of time before we had been able to use the elixir--an amount of time which had, alas, proven too long for the reanimation to be perfe