West, Dr. Herbert

The brilliant Boston-born graduate of Miskatonic University Medical School who experimented on reanimating human corpses.  After setting up a practice in Bolton, he became a Major in a Canadian medical regiment in France during W.W.I and went on to become a well-known physician in Boston where he owned a home with a secret passage into the Averills' tomb in one of the city's oldest burial grounds.  He disappeared suddenly and explicably.  His assistant, a  Miskatonic classmate and doctor, had an explanation that was dismissed by authorities.

[Herbert West-Reanimator - H.P.L.]