Arkham
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Arkham () is a fictional city situated in Massachusetts, United States. An integral part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham is featured in many of his stories and those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.
Key facts
- Fictional location.name
- Arkham
- Fictional location.image
- Map of the Principal Parts of Arkham, Massachusetts.png
- Fictional location.caption
- H. P. Lovecraft's hand-drawn map of Arkham, Massachusetts
- Fictional location.caption2
- Location of Arkham in Lovecraft Country, Massachusetts
- Fictional location.creator
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Fictional location.genre
- Horror fiction
- Fictional location.type
- City
- Fictional location.located_in
- Massachusetts
- Fictional location.locations
- Miskatonic University
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fictional city
- Part of
- Lovecraft Country
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Essex County
- Body of water
- Miskatonic River
- Creator
- H. P. Lovecraft
Show 5 more facts
- from narrative universe
- Cthulhu Mythos
- IPA transcription
- /ˈɑːrkəm/
- Commons category
- Arkham
- present in work
- The Silver Key
- inception
- 1920-00-00
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- In Lovecraft's stories
- Location
- Miskatonic University
- Appearances
- Lovecraft's fiction
- Other appearances
- Notes
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Books
- Web sites
- External links
Arkham () is a fictional city situated in Massachusetts, United States. An integral part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham is featured in many of his stories and those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.
Arkham House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, takes its name from this city as a tribute. Arkham Asylum, a fictional mental hospital in DC Comics' Batman mythos, is also named after Lovecraft's Arkham.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arkham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.