Reanimated Corpse
Reanimated Corpse — a species or servitor line; field taxonomy provisional, behaviour not. Register ME-1924-D86/6708.
Overview
Expedition register ME-1924-D86/6708 — cross-index under slug `reanimated-corpse`.
Field notes on Reanimated Corpse read like zoology until the specimen looks back and the notebook stops mid-sentence.
Herbert West's subjects return violent, amoral, and deteriorating.
Period attestation: lovecraft-1920s.
If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.
Description
Not true resurrection—minds are damaged or absent.
Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.
Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.
Historical Record
Miskatonic bans West's serum formulas from interlibrary loan.
Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.
Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.
Field Observations
Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.
Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.
The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.
Archive Notes
Cite archive slug `reanimated-corpse` in all cross-references. The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record ARC-000. Access subject to institutional review.
Related Records
Cross-References
CHR-006
unknownHerbert West
Reanimator
A medical student and later practitioner whose reagent could restore motion to the dead - without restoring the soul, and with results that drove him from university to war field to an attic in Boston where the accumulated dead finally answered back.
LOC-002
activeArkham
City on the Miskatonic
An aging Massachusetts town of gambrel roofs and winding streets, home to the university and countless quiet horrors, the kind that do not shriek in the night but wait in attics for generations to pass.
CON-002
activeForbidden Knowledge
Epistemic Hazard
Information whose acquisition damages the seeker - truths the mind evolved specifically not to accommodate, and that no degree of education prepares one to survive.
CON-001
activeCosmic Horror
Philosophical Classification
Horror arising not from personal evil but from the insignificance of humanity before an indifferent, incomprehensible cosmos - the aesthetic that governs every file in this archive.
TOM-001
fragmentaryNecronomicon
Al Azif, Book of Dead Names
The most infamous grimoire of the mythos, an Arabic manuscript of rituals, histories, and formulae that erode the sanity of readers and have never been wholly suppressed, only scattered.