Arkham (New England)

Arkham
Name	Arkham
Location Details
Reality	Earth-616
Galaxy	Milky Way
Star System	Sol
Planet	Earth
Country	United States of America
State	Massachusetts
Region	New England
Creators and Appearances
Creators	H.P. Lovecraft
First	Tower of Shadows #9 (January, 1971) (Mentioned)
First	Tower of Shadows #9 (January, 1971) (Mentioned)

History

Arkham was a witch-haunted city in New England.

Notes

• Arkham was a fictional town in Massachusetts, created by H.P. Lovecraft in The Picture in the House (1920).
• The city's name is mentioned in the narration at the beginning of the adaptation of "Pickman's Model" (October, 1927) in Tower of Shadows #9 (January, 1971), written as an out-of-universe text. It is unknown if Arkham exists in Marvel Comics.
  • The Miskatonic University, a location within Lovecraft's Arkham, appears in Avengers #83 (December, 1970), but is based in the state of Vermont rather than in Massachusetts.

Trivia

• Arkham was inspiration for the names of Arkham House, the publishing house created in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish H.P. Lovecraft's work, and of DC Comics' Arkham Asylum (later appearing, merged with Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, in the DC/Marvel Amalgam Comics, as Arkham Tower).

See Also

• 1 mention(s) of Arkham (New England)

Links and References

• Arkham on Wikipedia.org