West accidentally tips over a lantern and the farmhouse catches fire. Later an inhuman scream is heard from within the room containing the corpse which forces the two students to instinctively flee into the night. They take it back to the farmhouse and inject it with West's solution, but nothing happens. One night, West and the narrator steal a corpse of a construction worker who died just that morning in an accident. West and the narrator go into grave robbing for themselves. At first, they pay a group of men to rob graves for them, but none of the experiments are successful. The two men spirit away numerous supplies from the medical school and set up shop in an abandoned farmhouse. West realizes he must experiment on human subjects. The narrator goes on to explain how he met West when they were both young men in medical school, and the narrator became fascinated by West's theories, which postulated that the human body is simply a complex, organic machine, which could be "restarted." West initially tries to prove this hypothesis, but is unsuccessful. Informing the reader that Herbert West has recently disappeared. The narrator is a doctor who went to medical school with the titular character.
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Despite increasing threats from human encroachment and industrial logging, we found that most publications on Blakiston's Fish-Owls in Russia focused only on the species' presence and lacked sufficient breadth to guide conservation efforts. We also provide an overview of contemporary knowledge of the species and summarize primary conservation issues. We here examine and summarize content of 44 publications from the primary Russian Blakiston's Fish-Owl litera- ture, assess the accuracy of 24 publications from the secondary literature, and determine the dependence of authors of primary Ketupa genus literature on secondary sources for information. Although it is a species of global conservation interest, much of the primary literature on Blakiston's Fish-Owls is limited to Russian- and Japanese-language publications, with content summarized for the broader English-speaking scientific community in secondary, English-language sources. 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