Herbert West

The narrator describes Herbert West, a former classmate and lifelong companion from their years at the Miskatonic University Medical School in Arkham. His friendship with West began in their third year of study, when West's experiments fascinated him completely. The narrator now speaks of West with dread, a fear that grows stronger since West vanished under sinister circumstances. The narrator suggests that the imagined horrors of the past are more troubling than what actually happened. The stories follow West's work on the dead and the terrible consequences it brings.