In Lovecraft's original story, he only briefly mentioned Herbert West's experiences during World War I, but now the whole dark truth can be revealed - secret laboratories, legions of walking corpses and terrible experiments that defy description. As a war correspondent gets closer to the truth and West's assistant tries to cover up his mentor's unholy digs, a mutant monster, fed by the dead, rises to claim the battlefield as its own, and something unspeakable, something beyond death itself, stalks the night into searching for his twisted creator...Bonus: "The Crypt", a short story by Tim Curran: Five years after Herbert West's disappearance, the legends of his crazed experiments on the dead live on as twice-told tales and tales for dark nights. But when mutilated, half-eaten corpses are discovered in Arkham, the police are on the trail of a grave-robbing horror, the disgusting end result of one of West's experiments, who still haunts lonely graves and rips children from their "cradles" to satisfy his terrible appetites... .