Lovecraft's poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft ( Night Shade Books, 2001 ), while much of his juvenilia, various essays on philosophical, political and literary topics, antiquarian travelogues, and other things, can be found in Miscellaneous Writings ( Arkham House, 1989 ).

* Danvers State Hospital, in Danvers, Massachusetts, which is largely believed to have served as inspiration for the infamous Arkham sanatorium from " The Thing on the Doorstep ".

Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in Arkham, a fictitious town in Essex County, Massachusetts.

Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.

Arkham's main newspaper is the Arkham Advertiser, which has a circulation that reaches as far as Dunwich.

In the 1880s, its newspaper is called the Arkham Gazette.

The precise location of Arkham is unknown, although it is probably near both Innsmouth and Dunwich.

His first collection, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, is a volume of Cthulhu Mythos stories published by Arkham House in 1964.

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.

The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham.

Derleth wrote in 1970, " he fact is that in no single year since its founding have the earnings of Arkham House met the expenses, so that it has been necessary for my personal earnings to shore up Arkham House finances.

This work is being issued by Arkham House co-published with the August Derleth Society.

In Batman: The Animated Series, the head psychiatrist of Arkham Asylum is named Dr. Bartholomew, a reference to Bartholomew Wolper, though Bartholomew is depicted as competent, well-meaning and fully supportive of Batman's methods, having been saved more than once by Batman.

The Batsuit featured in The Dark Knight Returns is available as a DLC ( downloadable content ) Skin for the video game Batman: Arkham City.

* The King in Yellow is the title of an expansion to the Lovecraft-themed Arkham Horror adventure board game, involving a troupe of actors who intend to perform the eponymous play.

The King himself does not appear, but if the play is performed to its conclusion, it drives the entire population of Arkham insane.

Although it is not common, some games make the final boss a character who is not the main antagonist ( for example: Clayface from Batman: Arkham City ).

Despite being spoken of on only a few occasions in Lovecraft's work, Yig is one of the Ancient Ones included in the Arkham Horror board game, appearing alongside Great Old Ones such as Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.

After her capture, Harley is shown in one of the Scarecrow's hallucinations as one of the villains escorting Batman into Arkham.

During another early encounter with Batman, the Mad Hatter escapes from Arkham in time for Halloween, and makes his home in an old mansion that had been abandoned after a gruesome murder years before.

When their medical tent is stormed by the enemy troops, West and Cain return home to Arkham, Massachusetts.

His last line is " Now at last, Mighty Zeus is home ", indicating ironically that he is now where he belongs: in Arkham Asylum.

The area is home to three roller coasters ( Arkham Asylum – Shock Therapy, Green Lantern Coaster and Superman Escape ) as well as two other attractions ( Batwing Spaceshot and Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D ).

This group of writers became known as the " Lovecraft Circle ", since they all freely borrowed elements of Lovecraft's stories – the mysterious books with disturbing names, the pantheon of ancient alien entities, such as Cthulhu and Azathoth, and eldritch places, such as the New England town of Arkham and its Miskatonic University – for use in their own works with Lovecraft's encouragement.

* Miskatonic University in the fictional Arkham, Massachusetts

In 2011, Graham wrote his first novel for Fantasy Flight Games ( known for a wide range of roleplaying games, card games, and board games ), Ghouls of the Miskatonic, the first story of the Dark Waters Trilogy, based on FFG's Arkham Horror board game and thus closely linked to H. P.

The most important portion stretches along the Miskatonic River valley, from Dunwich in the far west to where it enters the Atlantic Ocean between Arkham, Kingsport, and Martin's Beach.

In the story that first mentions both Arkham and the Miskatonic Valley, " The Picture in the House " ( written later in 1920 ), Lovecraft wrote that " the true epicure of the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteem most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England ; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous.

Among the most successful of these was Batman: Arkham Asylum ( 2009 ), which was released by Rocksteady Studios to critical acclaim ; review aggregator Metacritic reports it as having received 92 % positive reviews.

It was followed by the sequel Batman: Arkham City ( 2011 ), which also received widespread acclaim and holds a Metacritic ranking of 94 %.

For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions ( specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions ) of his prose fiction were published by Arkham House, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.

They collect the standard texts as edited by S. T. Joshi, most of which were available in the Arkham House editions, with the exception of the restored text of " The Shadow Out of Time " from The Dreams in the Witch House, which had been previously released by small-press publisher Hippocampus Press.

At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the Massachusetts locales of Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them to English settings in and around the fictional Gloucestershire city of Brichester, near the River Severn, creating his own Severn Valley milieu for Lovecraftian horrors.

In addition to volumes of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction, Arkham House has published a five volume edition of Lovecraft's Selected Letters which gives an overview of Lovecraft's correspondence to peers, friends and family.

Battered Silicon Dispatch Box has issued in 2009 four new volumes of stories by August Derleth under a joint imprint with Arkham House which constitute Arkham House's only output since 2006.

In the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, he has needles strapped to each of his fingers on his right hand with which he injects fear toxins into his victim.

The Joker then kills Batman, when the game over screen appears, it states that Batman should " move the middle stick " to avoid the Jokers shot, however this is scripted as well as there being no " middle stick " on a standard controller, when the player presses restart, Batman bursts out of his grave and begins a third obstacle course while listening to Scarface, the new warden, talk about Arkham Asylum, which, in the dream, is described as a " pioneering slaughterhouse ".

In the Batman: Arkham Asylum universe, it is revealed in one of Nigma's patient interviews that his father was abusive, which is when his fascination with riddles and puzzles began.

He is next seen escaping Arkham Asylum during the worldwide supervillain breakout engineered by the Secret Society of Super Villains in Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special # 1, which takes place only days after the prior supernatural disaster.

She has also lent her voice to English-language localizations of Japanese anime such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, as well as several video games, including her work as Elisa and Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops ; Paz Ortega Andrade in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker ; Seth Balmore in Lost Odyssey ; Rikku in Final Fantasy X, its sequel Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II ; Norma Beatty in Tales of Legendia ; Talwyn Apogee in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and its sequel, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty ( both of which reunite her with her Final Fantasy X and Drawn Together co-star James Arnold Taylor ) and Harley Quinn replacing Arleen Sorkin in Batman: Arkham City.

A later version was released in the " Arkham Asylum " expansion which is the Renee Montoya version of the character.

Despite these precautions, Ra's eventually escapes when the orderlies miss his dosage once, which allows him to become conscious enough to escape from Arkham.

* In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Ra's al Ghul's body can be found zipped up in a body bag in the morgue part of Arkham Mansion near Dr. Penny Young's office, which serves as the answer to the riddle " It'll be a cold day in hell when this Ghul rises again .".

In 2010, Kieth wrote and illustrated the original hardcover graphic novel Arkham Asylum: Madness, which spent two weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, reaching number five.

In 1946, Arkham House published Long's first collection of supernatural fiction, The Hounds of Tindalos, which collected 21 of his best tales from the previous twenty years of magazine publication.

He is seen laughing hysterically in Arkham with the final page of " The Return with the Man of the Animal Powers ," the second Animal Man story, after which he is dragged back to his cell.

Tetch had given her one of his mind controlling hats years before, which she used to try to take control of a guard and try to help Tetch escape from Arkham.