Herbert West - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

• A 3-issue comic-book adaptation of the movie was published by Adventure Comics, an imprint of Malibu Comics, in 1991 scripted by Steven Philip Jones. Then followed an original 4-issue prequel titled Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator written by Bill Spangler.
• West is featured in the Dynamite Entertainment comic miniseries Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator, where he faces off against Ash Williams, hero of the Evil Dead film series. Dynamite also released a Re-Animator #0 prequel.
• Herbert West is the Doctor that Mayor Harvey Dent sees in the Batman Elseworlds comic book series, The Doom That Came To Gotham
• Herbert West makes a guest appearance in the Dynamite Entertainment Hack/Slash comic book series (#15-17) in a crossover "Hack/Slash vs. Re-Animator" where the main heroine, Cassie Hack's father is an assistant to Herbert. During one of his experiments, he reanimates her mother the Lunch Lady, who almost starts a killing spree. However, with Cassie's help, he destroys and eventually disappears from Cassie and Vlad's sight. Its hinted that the government was now interested in his work.
• West is a main character in the Zenescope Entertainment comic Chronicles of Doctor Herbert West, essentially a modern retelling of the Lovecraftian novel in which the hidden narrator is now Megan, who is his lover and girlfriend while in his college years, and his obsession with death is now explained as the byproduct of a childhood trauma: while going to Church with his devout family, he saw his mother and sister run over by a bus. He renounces the idea of an immortal soul reaching a heavenly afterlife, swearing he'll find a way to bring back his loved ones. It appears to currently be on hiatus.
• The online flash game Deanimator is based on H. P. Lovecraft's original character.
• The Splatterhouse video game series features a mad scientist called "Dr. Henry West", owner of "West Mansion", the setting for the series. This Dr. West was also conducting experiments to resurrect the dead.
• The character of Herbert West has had brief cameo appearances in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series novels The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula Cha Cha Cha, serving as a colleague of Dr. Moreau, Jakob Ten Brincken, and Doctor Septimus Pretorius.
• Herbert West is the main character in novels by Audrey Driscoll entitled The Friendship of Mortals (2010), Islands of the Gulf (2012) and Hunting the Phoenix (2012).
• West is also a character in the Swedish Lovecraftian horror film Kammaren. The scriptwriters did a Swedish take on the name and it became Herbert Vest. He was played by the Swedish actor Kaj Stenberg.
• Herbert West has a main role in the parody musical A Shoggoth on the Roof, published by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
• The Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has a perfume called "Herbert West" in its A Picnic in Arkham collection.
• Randy MilHolland's webcomic Something Positive contains a musical adaptation of Herbert West in the "Out of Tune" storyline.
• Herbert West is a main character in the hentai anime Mystery of the Necronomicon. Before he is revealed as a modern-day Herbert West continuing his horrible experiments, he disguises himself as "Toshiaki Nezu", a book collector.
• The Lovecraft-based anime series Demonbane reimagines Herbert West as a guitar-playing lunatic mad scientist.
• West is a main character in the Japanese video game Operation Darkness, a WWII-era tactical-RPG/third-person shooter about an Allied special forces unit that possess supernatural abilities. West is the team medic. (In the English version of the game, West is renamed "Herbert East.")
• In the video game Obscure 2, the player picks up a keycard in the hospital belonging to a man named Herbert West.
• "Herbert West" is the title of a 2007 song by UK band Heartwear Process.
• "Herbert West" is also the title of a 2008 song by US band Pipe Supply, named by Jiggly J. Slickwood as a tribute to the Re-Animator movies.
• "Herbert West" was also the name of a rock band based in Barrow-in-Furness in the 1980s.