The narrator returns from holiday to find that West has perfected corpse preservation. Combined with his latest serum, they test it on the body of a travelling salesman, exposing fell deeds.

Five years later finds West as a medic during World War I, with bodies aplenty...both friend and foe.

A reporter recounts his encounter with a haunted house.

An insulted nobleman honours his family's motto, Nemo me impune lacessit (No one insults me with impunity), with deadly consequences.

Our narrator recounts on his terror filled experiences with his colleague. Herbert West, a medical student with an unorthodox manner, develops a serum designed to re-animate the dead.

Retiring to a house connected to an ancient system of catacombs West's past finally catches up to him as a former WWI experiment seeks revenge.

West furthers his serum during a typhus epidemic. A breakthrough is made on a previous instructor, resulting in a beastly backlash.

West's twisted vision is facilitated in the bodily form of a legally procured boxing champion.