the monster’s face was cleaned — the mocking, unbelievable resemblance to a learned and self-sacrificing martyr who had been entombed but three days before — the late Dr. Allan Halsey, public benefactor and dean of the medical school of Miskatonic University. To the vanished Herbert West and to me the disgust and horror were supreme. I shudder tonight as I think of it; shudder even more than I did that morning when West muttered through his bandages, “Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!” …