Herbert West- ReAnimator (30 pages)

Herbert West is a carbon copy of Frankenstein but more insane. Herbert is a Canadian professor who bluntly comes off as a gay necrophiliac whose obsession is to make an army of dead. For a full night Herbert's experiment works and he reeks havoc with power he has no control over. He describes his creations in great detail from their cold but meaty skin to the yellow glisten in their eyes. During the course of the night he's murdered all his servants and turned them into undead, but Herbert doesn't have control and gets eaten as soon as the zombie like creatures form legions and the narrator is Herbert's best friend who at the end of the story clues us into that he might' have been the one who was really behind this study

Memorable line: "They imply that I am a madman or a murderer-probably I am mad. But I might not be mad if those accursed tomb legions had not been so silent" (Pg.30)

Style: Again, Frankenstein Rip off...probably because the films started to come out in 1931.

Exterior Notes: Maybe his stories are so long because he doesn't have the ability to write long stories without being too dragged out, this story had a great premise but was like pulling teeth to get through

The Outsider (7 pages)

Summary: The outsider is a tale of a Baron who hasn't yet explored all of his castle. He wanders around in the dead of night to find a room and finds himself at a golden archway in the cellar and a giant pyramid that lays beyond it. As soon as he touches the golden arch Demons and ghouls awake, knocking the Baron over...he has awaken the lost souls of an entire millennia.

Memorable Line: Ghastly and terrible was that dead, stairless cylinder of rock; black, ruined and deserted, and sinister with startled bats whose wings made no noise. But more ghastly and terrible stillwas the slowness of my progress; for clumb as I might the darkness overheard grew no thinner, and a new chull as of haunted and venerable would assailed me. (Pg. 2+3 )

Style: I don't really know how to express the style, I can say it felt more or less of a prologue of a larger piece of work. Lovecraft makes the reader eager to read more, but disappoints by ending the story abruptly.

Exterior Notes: (Did he plan to expand on this body of work? )

The Picture in the House (9 pages)

This story is about a man who gets caught in the rain on a bike trail. In search of shelter he goes off trail and finds a house. He went inside thinking whoever lives there would understand. Inside he finds a Portrait of a man who a harsh and hard to understand who speaks in a Shakespearean style with a southern accent. During the conversation lightning strikes and the only clue you have to what happened to the man is that "his mind has been saved from oblivion" most likely himself becoming a portrait...forever trapped but forever alive to talk with the portrait.

Memorable Line: "A moment later came house of unutterable secrets and bringing the oblivion which alone saved my mind." (pg.9)

Style: Dark ending reminds me of "The Cask of Amontillado" written by Edgar Allen Poe

Exterior Notes: H.P is a great writer with shocking endings when it's not someone waking up in a hospital, any time he doesn't end it that way I get chills just by the thoughts that enter your mind by the vauge endings of what might've happened to the main characters. He makes you care about characters that you don't even know their names half the time.

Nyarlathotep (3 pages)

Nyarlathotep is a warning to all who read it from an anonymous man. The warning is of the God of destruction Nyarlathotep, something so powerful, who looks human but has the ability to possess and animate figures such as stone statues with its soul using strange tools only used to "spill the blood of civilizations". In the story the man entails the destruction of his village when Nyarlathotep places its soul into gargoyles that ravage and destroy an entire civilization within mere seconds.

Memorable Line: "Nyarlathotep, swarthy slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger." (pg.2)

Style: This almost reminds me of a bible reading. The entire feel of this story seems like the bible readings of the end of the world and the theme of ultimate evil coming from pure evil in form of a human much like the anti-christ depicted in the bible.

Exterior Notes: This might have been where H.P lovecraft really opened up the idea that his stories are all part of one world...maybe I should make a map or something of all the gods and titans listed in this book, all their origins and routes of travel are listed in each story.

Celephais (7 pages)

This story is hard to follow and explain. It's about a man Named Kuranes who's a sailor in London who dreams about a city named Celephais. This city shares a name with the God who guards the city. Kuranes is a bit on the eccentric side, he believes the only way to get to Celephais and not be attacked by the monster is to achieve perpetual youth. There is a second reason why he needs to achieve perpetual youth and that is the journey to get to Celephais takes a lifetime, therefore one would need to be immortal to get there. To do so he spends all his money on sleeping drugs one day a group of knights take him away to Celephais, though it's assumed it's just him dying because he's poor and drugged off of the sleeping pills, Celephais being Kuranes search for happiness and death being the answer.

Memorable Line: "In a dream Kuranes saw the city in the valley, and the sea-coast beyond, and the snowy peak overlooking the sea and the gaily painted galleys that sail out of the harbour toward the distant recame by his name of Kuranes, for when awake he was called by different millions of London , so there were not many to speak to him and remind him who he had been." (pg.1)

Writing Style : The beginning story's writing style reminds me of Pans Labyrinth when the main character makes an imaginary world to escape the war, both characters wake up to a new world of being royalty when just before they die.

Exterior Notes

New info on The Late Arthur Jermyn

While some speculated the mumified Arthur Jermyn. Others speculate that the white ape was the child of Arthur and the Goddess thus giving commentary on mixed marriages.

This story never got published under it's full name until 1990, popular names for this story are "The White Ape" and "The Late Jermyn" where as the full name of the story is "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family"

The Late Arthur Jerymn (10 pages) 2/19

This third story is entitled "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family". This is where H.P really shows that he was raised in times of racism. This story takes place in 1852 where Arthur is kidnapped by a goddesses dark skinned servants and taken away. The entire story retells the scene of how beastly these servants were. At the closure of the story is says that in 1913 Arthur Jermyn came back, but not from a plane but in a package from Africa, and inside it was a mummified white ape, with less hair then any ape before it. Showing that spending time in Africa made Arthur De-evolve into an ape like creature.

Most Memorable Line: "Members of the Royal Anthropological Institute burned the thing and threw the locker into a well, and some of them do not admit that Arthur Jermyn ever existed." (Page 10)

Style Shown: A nonfiction environment thrown into a sudden static of fantasy then slammed into a world of it's own completely different and original, almost impossible to describe.

(Exterior Notes: H.P's style changed dramatically, this time it's a goddess not a god, the main character doesn't wake up in a hospital, no curiosity just a raid of "savages". )