Hi Everyone!
Please read the following passage from H. P. Lovecraft’s “Herbert West-Reanimator” and then ask yourself: Is this just an example of morbidity (there are similar passages scattered throughout Lovecraft’s fictional works & he was, indeed, a rather morbid man).
Or: Is there something more - is this, as Michel Houellebecq insists, Lovecraft against the world, against life?
Or: Is something else going on here?
What do you think?
“I can still see Herbert West under the sinister electric light as he injected his reanimating solution into the arm of the headless body. The scene I cannot describe- I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.”
JLS
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