- Adaptation Displacement: Herbert West–Reanimator was published in 1922 and Lovecraft was known to dislike the story. It was rarely reprinted and remained largely obscure for decades. The 1985 film has almost completely supplanted the short story in popular culture.
- Moral Event Horizon: West crosses it when he resort to active murder just to get one perfectly fresh and intact specimen for his experiments, only to fail. After that point, his sanity keep deteriorating and he loses what few moral standards he once had, both as a person and in the goals of his experiments.
- Values Dissonance: Lovecraft's description of the black boxer includes a comparison between his appearance and that of a gorilla and alludes to "unspeakable Congo secrets". It stretched the limits even for its day and today is "content warning"-worthy. Meanwhile, his opponent is described as an Irishman "with a most un-Hibernian hooked nose".
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/HerbertWestReanimator
FollowingYMMV / Herbert West–Reanimator
Go To
