Reanimators, by Peter Rawlik – click to pre-order

Pete Rawlik sent me the following, and I knew you guys would enjoy it…

“Summary notes on the Life of Herbert West, MD”, by Pete Rawlik.  Pre-order his upcoming Lovecraftian novel, Reanimators!

• 1883 Herbert West born out of wedlock to Evangeline West (8)
• 1888 Monies from a trust fund administered by Garbriel Utterson of London, England are made available for the health and welfare of Herbert West (8)
• 1893 Evangeline West and her husband die after lightning sets fire to their home. Herbert is given into the custody of two spinster aunts on his step-father’s side (6)
• 1897 Herbert West works as an assistant in an Arkham funeral home (6)
• 1898 West enters Miskatonic University (supposition)
• 1900 Herbert West is questioned about the disappearances of Dr. Masheck Quinley and student Tristan Langbroek (5)
• 1904 West and Cain, in their third year of Medical School, take up residence in the Chapman Farm House beyond Meadow Hill (1a)
• 1905 During their residency, West and Cain help battle the Typhoid epidemic that claims the life of Dr. Alan Halsey (1b)
• 1906 West and Cain set up a practice in Bolton (1c)
• 1909 The death of Buck Robinson (1c)
• 1910 West has some success (1d)
• 1914 West and Cain join the Canadian Armed Forces (4)
• 1915 West and Cain fail to save Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee in Flanders (1e)
• 1916 Summer: West and Cain at Belloy-en Santerre (4)
• 1916-1917 Winter: West and Cain at the Chateau d’Erlette in France (4)
• 1918 Herbert West establishes a relationship with the artist Richard Upton Pickman (7)
• 1920 Herbert West encounters the precocious Megan Halsey-Griffith (7)
• 1921 The Sefton Asylum Massacre and the disappearance of West (1f)
• 1921 Fall: West seeks asylum in the Gill Street Mission of the Resurrected Father and recruits a new assistant, a funeral director whom he calls Daniel Kane (10)
• 1922 Dr. Hartwell convinces the authorities to release Cain, who then begins a practice in Arkham (4)
• 1922 Winter: West encounters Riley Barnes and Trevor Towers in Falmouth Massachusetts (10)
• 1923 March: West reappears and with Cain takes up residence on Crane Street, Arkham (2a)
• May: West travels to Egypt (2a)
• July: West returns to Arkham (2b)
• August: West and Cain move to New York (2b)
• 1928 Spring: West and Cain travel to England (2b, 2c)
• 1928 Summer: West vanishes in New Boston, Cain flees to Baltimore alone (2d)
• 1939 May: Cain marries Barbara Bishop (2e)
• 1940 June: Barbara Bishop gives birth (2f)
• 1942 Cain and West join the Reich Institute for Military Research and move to Berlin (3a, 3b)
• 1943 Cain and West move to Auschwitz (3c, 3d)
• 1945 West and Cain are captured by Allied Forces and transferred to Washington, DC (3d)
• 1947 West and Cain are assigned to Project Starchaser in Roswell, New Mexico. West is reported killed and Cain badly injured. Cain escapes killing Ernest T. Whittaker (3d, 3e)
• 1950 Cain reports that Herbert West no longer bound by the laws of space-time (3f)
• 2010 West returns to Earth and encounters Detective Theodore London (6)

Sources

1a H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West – Reanimator: I From the Dark
1b H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West – Reanimator: II The Plague-Daemon
1c H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West – Reanimator: III Six Shots by Midnight
1d H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West – Reanimator: IV The Scream of the Dead
1e H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West – Reanimator: V The Horror from the Shadows
1F H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West – Reanimator: VI The Tomb-Legions

2a R. M. Price, Herbert West – Reanimated: I Charnel Secrets
2b P. H. Cannon, Herbert West – Reanimated: II The Body from the Bog
2c W. Murray, Herbert West – Reanimated: III Tombstone Tribunal
2d D. R. Burleson, Herbert West – Reanimated: IV What Came up from the Cellar
2e C. Hoffman, Herbert West – Reanimated: V Tears of the Dead
2f R. M. Price, Herbert West – Reanimated: VI The Corpse Spawn

3a R. Heather, Herbert West – Reincarnated: I Colluding Cosmos
3b B. McNaughton, Herbert West – Reincarnated: II The Horror of the Holyland
3c J. S. Pulver, Sr., Herbert West – Reincarnated: III In the Devil’s Garden
3d R. M. Price, Herbert West – Reincarnated: IV The Thing from the Ovens
3e C. J. Henderson, Herbert West – Reincarnated: V The Fear in the Waiting
3f M. Cisco, Herbert West – Reincarnated: VI The Chaos into Time

4 P. Rawlik, Reanimators

5 M. Tanzer, Herbert West in Love

6 C. J. Henderson, An Eternity of Self

7 P. Rawlik, Pickman’s Marble

8 P. Rawlik, The Issue of Dr. Jekyll

10. R. Shiflet and G. Barrass, Two Against Darkness