Reanimators by Pete Rawlik

Reanimators

Pete Rawlik

Night Shade Books · Print & ebook · August 27, 2013

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Who it’s for
A long scientific feud turns history into a grim playground for resurrection and horror.
Themes
Historical horror, Scientific ambition, Rivalry
Pacing
Fast

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About this book

Two Men. A Bitter Rivalry. And a Quarter-Century of Unspeakable Horrors. Herbert West’s crimes against nature are well-known to those familiar with the darkest secrets of science and resurrection. Obsessed with finding a cure for mankind’s oldest malady, death itself, he has experimented upon the living and dead, leaving behind a trail of monsters, mayhem, and madness. But the story of his greatest rival has never been told.Until now.

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Dr. Stuart Hartwell, a colleague and contemporary of West, sets out to destroy West by uncovering the secrets of his terrible experiments, only to become that which he initially despised: a reanimator of the dead. For more than twenty years, spanning the early decades of the twentieth century, the two scientists race each other to master the mysteries of life . . . and unlife. From the grisly battlefields of the Great War to the backwoods hills and haunted coasts of Dunwich and Innsmouth, from the halls of fabled Miskatonic University to the sinking of the Titanic, their unholy quests will leave their mark upon the world—and create monsters of them both. Reanimators is an epic tale of historical horror . . . in the tradition of Anno Dracula and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Rivalry Reanimated

A long scientific feud turns history into a grim playground for resurrection and horror.

Come here for

  • Competing scientists chasing mastery over life and unlife
  • Historical landmarks unsettled by Lovecraftian shadows

Expect

  • A sprawling, decades-long tale of grisly ambition
  • Monsters made by the very men who hunt them

Where it sits

Horror83%
The Occult & Supernatural37%
Alternate History30%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Historical Fantasy
  • Dark Fantasy
  • Horror
Authors
Pete Rawlik
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Published
August 27, 2013
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Historical horror · Scientific ambition · Rivalry
Reading lane
Historical Fantasy