Miskatonic University (Location)

Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in the equally fictional Arkham, Massachusetts. It was introduced in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft.

Building

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Collections

Library

The university's library is famous for its collection of rare occult books, including several authentic tomes such as the Necronomicon, and Book of Eibon. It also has several of the more rare and less famous fragmented and untranslated writings.

The library is headed by the prestigious Dr. Henry Armitage who himself is a great researcher of the occult and linguistics. From experience he has learned to keep much of the collection under lock and key. A guard dog is also kept chained up outside the building.

It has copies of:

The Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred in Olaus Wormius’ Latin version, as printed in Spain in the seventeenth century.

A collection of journals, and old badly kept books from the belongings of Wilbur Whateley.

Trithemius’ Poligraphia

Giambattista Porta’s De Furtivis Literarum Notis

De Vigenère’s Traité des Chiffres

Falconer’s Cryptomenysis Patefacta

Davys’ and Thicknesse’s eighteenth-century treatises

Klüber’s Kryptographik

The Book of Eibon

Unaussprechlichen Kulten of Friedrich von Junzt

Other books by, Davys, Thicknesse, Blair, and von Marten in the sunject of cryptography.

History

Expeditions

The Miskatonic University has funded several expeditions around the world.

Pabodie Expedition

An expedition in 1930 to the Antarctic funded by the Nathaniel Derby Pickman Foundation. It consisted of four men from the University—Pabodie, Lake of the biology department, Atwood of the physics department (also a meteorologist), and an unnamed geologist —besides sixteen assistants; seven of which were graduate students from Miskatonic. The expedition ended in tragedy when a party led by Perey Lake all were killed in a massive snow storm after discovering the Miskatonic Mountain Range. The expedition was followed up by the independent Starkweather-Moore Expedition in 1933.

Faculty

Medical School

Dean: Dr. Allan Halsey (died August 14th 190? of typhoid)

Library

Head Librarian: Henry Armitage (A.M. Miskatonic, Ph. D. Princeton, Litt. D. Johns Hopkins)

Engineering

Prof. Frank H. Pabodie

Biology

(Prof?) Perey Lake

Math/Physics

(Prof?) Atwood

Professor Upham

School Infirmary

Head Doctor: "Old" Waldron

Other

Professor Warren Rice

Doctor Francis Morgan

Courses

The University offers a wide range of courses in almost any subject. Some of them included in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft are:

Advanced General Psychology

Calculus D

Alumni

Frank Elwood

Walter Gilman

Herbert West

Appearances

• At the Mountains of Madness, H.P.Lovecraft
• The Dreams in the Witch House, Lovecraft
• The Dunwich Horror, Lovecraft
• Herbert West – Reanimator, Lovecraft
• The Whisperer in Darkness, Lovecraft

See Also

The horror movie Re-Animator, directed by Stuart Gordon and based on a Lovecraft story, took place at Miskatonic University. As a tribute to Lovecraft, Bill Pullman's character in 'Brain Dead' attended the university, as did some characters in the film Dagon.

The Millennium comics series H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu introduces The Miskatonic Project (created by Mark Ellis with art by Darryl Banks, Daryl Hutchinson and Don Heck), a group of investigators who follow up on the loose ends of Lovecraft's original stories, such as "The Whisperer In Darkness".

Also, the DC Comics character Zatanna, a female magician, uses the alias "Miss Katonic". John M. Ford's Star Trek novel How Much For Just The Planet? puts "Princess DeeDee the First" into a Miskatonic U. sweatshirt at one point. "Dreams in the Witch House" (a short film for the SHOWTIME network's "Masters of Horror" series), also based on a H.P. Lovecraft story and directed by Stuart Gordon, focuses on a Miskatonic University student and takes place in and around the university.

It is speculated that the word "Mis-katonic" is derived from Greek chthonic, since many of Lovecraft's monsters and gods were chthonic.

External links

• A Miskatonic University website
• A mock Miskatonic University site
• Another mock Miskatonic University site
• Other Miskatonic University websites (Google search)

Original Wiki source: Wikipedia