Chapter timestamps: 1. From the Dark -- 0:06 2. The Plague Demon -- 13:47 3. Six Shots by Moonlight -- 27:08 4. The Scream of the Dead -- 40:06 5. The Horror from the Shadows -- 52:38 6. The Tomb-Legions -- 1:06:13 Narrated by: Gordon Gould
there used to be a place in south florida that would reanimate pets and loved ones. they couldnt be more than a week old though and had to be refrigerated. i miss going there and seeing all those electric meats groaning and slouching as they marched them around the room.. they used a kind if pole that attached to a wire lead that grazed the electrified ceiling like bumper cars do.. it was pretty neat.
My own personal theory is that Herbert West learned the secret of reanimation from reading the forbidden Necronomicon as a student in Miskatonic University.
@@olgagonzales-vg3qu The Necronomicon has nothing to do with souls or spirituality, it contains ancient pre-human knowledge of alchemy. How could he not believe in it if it takes place in the same universe?
I wonder if Lovecraft ever realized that when you're dead your blood doesn't flow anymore. So you can inject whatever you want it will only make a bubble in/on the body. There is no streaming blood anymore to dispense it. Silly mistake, in an otherwise cool story.
I think Lovecraft just took the Frankenstein story and decided it would be more fun to abandon the idea of sewing bits of bodies together in favour of the injection thing so that instead of one vengeful monster on the rampage you have a whole bunch of them.l love this story but from any philosophical standpoint it is not better than Frankenstein….indeed there is really no comparison. I think Lovecraft would have laughed at the idea that his was the better story.
@@davidwhite7294Exactly this. Not to mention that even if Reanimator is better than Frankenstein, isn’t that the thing with fiction and media in general? We see someone’s thing and think we can do better? We just make things ours.
I also think Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" is a response to Frankenstein - taking the visceral horror of being a living, thinking being entombed in a corpse's body that Frankenstein's monster must have felt and making it even more horrifying.
The Major's head. Sent as a scare tactic to West since the head could still speak but since West knew exactly what it was, he immediately went to dispose of it.
I can't bellieve we went from this intrueging modern frankenstein tale (with an annoying level of racist bs), to a really good horror movie, to a song with the lyrics "move your dead bones, bones, bones". God I love all this so much, and I refuse to be ashamed of it!
Yeah its too bad Lovecraft held such despicable views. Sadly it wasn't uncommon for the time. Thankfully though, the racist rhetoric in this story would not be acceptable in mainstream culture today. I look at it as an unfortunate reality of the past and hopefully we can learn from it and move on.
@@DontStopCornPop Exactly you can't really fault the people at the time. Many great leaders of the world that are praised for their excellence once owned slaves. I'm black and I can still happily appreciate Lovecraft and all his work. I'm sure we'll be despised in the near future for having nonconsentual technology at our control when A.I. get human rights.
@@DontStopCornPop The narrative is telling from the perspective of West's assistant. I read it / listen to it as he was racist himself, like if you read his diary. That way it's still racist, but simply authentic of the character.
Me neither.....l love the sheer ironic abandon of the horror with victims from every social background forming The Legions of the Dead. Real democracy beyond the grave, splendid.
It's an unfortunate reality that this was a common attitude of the time. I love the stories of HP Lovecraft but I have to grit my teeth when these moments come up. Still, I'd prefer the story to be left in its original form than for someone to come along and re-write it and pass it off like it's the authors original writing, like they were trying to do for Roald Dahl.
Agreed. What's written is written. Let it be a lesson to our children that racism unfortunately can't currently be stamped out (if ever). Speaking of children, my wife and I have taught our kid well. She's going on 15 and is an awesome kid. Smart and intelligent. (Yes, they're two different things!) If she came home from college with a black guy that she was dating, the first question that I'd ask her would be, "does he treat you well?" I don't care about anything else. I just want her to be happy with someone who respects her.
@Driven2Beers That's awesome, man! Congratulations! It's no easy feat to raise a child, especially in the age of social media. Like you, I abhor racism and I truly wish this wasn't such a glaring aspect of history, especially US history. But to erase it and pretend it didn't happen is not the way to handle it. The stories of HP Lovecraft, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain and even Stephen King need to remain preserved in their completely unaltered and original form so people can see exactly what these authors were thinking at that point in time in history when they were putting pen to page.
What do you want to do tonight Herbert?"
"The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to revive the dead."
Lovecraft’s idea of a comedy story
……and mine it ….was hilarious.
"What do you want to do tonight Herbert?"
"The same thing we do every night Narrator, try to reanimate the dead!"
Dammit, it wasn't quite fresh enough.
@@butula13ahh that brings back memories
Chapter timestamps:
1. From the Dark -- 0:06
2. The Plague Demon -- 13:47
3. Six Shots by Moonlight -- 27:08
4. The Scream of the Dead -- 40:06
5. The Horror from the Shadows -- 52:38
6. The Tomb-Legions -- 1:06:13
Narrated by: Gordon Gould
there used to be a place in south florida that would reanimate pets and loved ones. they couldnt be more than a week old though and had to be refrigerated. i miss going there and seeing all those electric meats groaning and slouching as they marched them around the room.. they used a kind if pole that attached to a wire lead that grazed the electrified ceiling like bumper cars do.. it was pretty neat.
My own personal theory is that Herbert West learned the secret of reanimation from reading the forbidden Necronomicon as a student in Miskatonic University.
Not posible herbert West didnt believe in souls so that means he was an atheist so he couldnt possibly believe in the necronomicon
@@olgagonzales-vg3qu The Necronomicon has nothing to do with souls or spirituality, it contains ancient pre-human knowledge of alchemy. How could he not believe in it if it takes place in the same universe?
And in his other stories Miskatonic University is known to have the Necronomicon, so this theory is not impossible
@@rdc2021 exactly!
@@rdc2021 because its witchcraft havent you seen the evil dead
I had no idea that Re-Animator was originally a H.P. Lovecraft story, I only saw the cover of it on Netflix and the Xbox movie marketplace.
I wonder if Lovecraft ever realized that when you're dead your blood doesn't flow anymore. So you can inject whatever you want it will only make a bubble in/on the body. There is no streaming blood anymore to dispense it. Silly mistake, in an otherwise cool story.
He also missed the fact that a decapitated head would have trouble speaking if its lungs are twenty feet away.
I can't believe I found it, thank you Dated, and thank you Lovecraft.
Resident Evil had to start somewhere
Even old Herb would be completely confused at Umbrella's tireless commitment to pointless carnage.
I find it funny that this was written about 100 years after Frankenstien, and about 100 years before today.
Thanks for this it was a great story by a brilliant author.
To Herb a human bein'
Was a mere machine
Made of meat
It only goes to show you
Ol' death is a foe you can't cheat
31 mins, just a time stamp for me to come back to
Glad to see people start listening recently.
youtube automatically starts where you left off.
I feel a strong Tim Burton vibe in this piece... especially the ending.
Better than Shelly's Frankenstein
I agree.
I think Lovecraft just took the Frankenstein story and decided it would be more fun to abandon the idea of sewing bits of bodies together in favour of the injection thing so that instead of one vengeful monster on the rampage you have a whole bunch of them.l love this story but from any philosophical standpoint it is not better than Frankenstein….indeed there is really no comparison. I think Lovecraft would have laughed at the idea that his was the better story.
@@davidwhite7294Exactly this. Not to mention that even if Reanimator is better than Frankenstein, isn’t that the thing with fiction and media in general? We see someone’s thing and think we can do better? We just make things ours.
Frau Blücher!!!
I also think Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" is a response to Frankenstein - taking the visceral horror of being a living, thinking being entombed in a corpse's body that Frankenstein's monster must have felt and making it even more horrifying.
There's a Lovecraftian horror movie called reanimator, featuring Herbert west.
Barbara Crampton was hott in that one!
Yes, then again, very mildy when comparing to From Beyond!😍😍😍@@Driven2Beers
@@CHALETARCADEwhen i watched from beyond i was not prepared for how sexually charged that movie was gonna get
@@frogaroach 😁
So what the hell was in the box at the end!?
I thought it was the officer’s head.
Duhhh! It's Gwyneth Paltrow's head.
Your mums didlo !
The Major's head. Sent as a scare tactic to West since the head could still speak but since West knew exactly what it was, he immediately went to dispose of it.
Unspeakable
Half life scientist narrating this?
Herbert doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional!
Anybody know who the narrator is?
I wish I knew. He is absolutely perfect for this story.
@@DontStopCornPop Gordon Gould
You gotta hear him read Livecrafts The Shadow over Innsmouth, holy shit it is actually scary as hell!!! Best reading I ever heard by faaaaar!!
Live Craft Love@@saintinnluvsew8813
I can't bellieve we went from this intrueging modern frankenstein tale (with an annoying level of racist bs), to a really good horror movie, to a song with the lyrics "move your dead bones, bones, bones". God I love all this so much, and I refuse to be ashamed of it!
Yeah its too bad Lovecraft held such despicable views. Sadly it wasn't uncommon for the time. Thankfully though, the racist rhetoric in this story would not be acceptable in mainstream culture today. I look at it as an unfortunate reality of the past and hopefully we can learn from it and move on.
@@DontStopCornPop Exactly you can't really fault the people at the time. Many great leaders of the world that are praised for their excellence once owned slaves. I'm black and I can still happily appreciate Lovecraft and all his work.
I'm sure we'll be despised in the near future for having nonconsentual technology at our control when A.I. get human rights.
@@DontStopCornPop The narrative is telling from the perspective of West's assistant. I read it / listen to it as he was racist himself, like if you read his diary. That way it's still racist, but simply authentic of the character.
Emerson Green has a video about Lovecraft. You might find it interesting.
Me neither.....l love the sheer ironic abandon of the horror with victims from every social background forming The Legions of the Dead. Real democracy beyond the grave, splendid.
Love Lovecraft stories but you really get a glimpse at his RAGING racism in this one eh? Forelegs??? Oh my
It's an unfortunate reality that this was a common attitude of the time. I love the stories of HP Lovecraft but I have to grit my teeth when these moments come up. Still, I'd prefer the story to be left in its original form than for someone to come along and re-write it and pass it off like it's the authors original writing, like they were trying to do for Roald Dahl.
Agreed. What's written is written. Let it be a lesson to our children that racism unfortunately can't currently be stamped out (if ever). Speaking of children, my wife and I have taught our kid well. She's going on 15 and is an awesome kid. Smart and intelligent. (Yes, they're two different things!) If she came home from college with a black guy that she was dating, the first question that I'd ask her would be, "does he treat you well?" I don't care about anything else. I just want her to be happy with someone who respects her.
@Driven2Beers That's awesome, man! Congratulations! It's no easy feat to raise a child, especially in the age of social media. Like you, I abhor racism and I truly wish this wasn't such a glaring aspect of history, especially US history. But to erase it and pretend it didn't happen is not the way to handle it. The stories of HP Lovecraft, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain and even Stephen King need to remain preserved in their completely unaltered and original form so people can see exactly what these authors were thinking at that point in time in history when they were putting pen to page.
…would ya? SMH. Sadly racism doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
His description of Harlem Smoke was just...wow. 😄
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