Arkham Asylum

Arkham Asylum
General Information
Purpose	Treatment of mental health illnesses
Location	The city of Arkham, Massachusetts

Arkham Asylum is a fictional institution in the Cthulhu Mythos inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Located in the city from which it takes its name, it is a sanatarium which exists for the treatment of the mentally ill.

Some sources posit that the asylum is not as innocent as it likes to appear: according to these, Dr. Herbert West used/uses the facility to continue his attempts at perfecting the re-agent (EXP: Feeders from Within, Army of Darkness Vs. Re-Animator).

Behind the Mythos

It should be noted that the name Arkham Asylum is only used by later contributors to the Cthulhu Mythos: in Lovecraft's work Arkham Sanitarium is the city's mental health institution. As different sources show the two to be in existence at roughly the same time, there are several possible solutions:

• the institutions have been conflated
• they are the same institution which was renamed at some point
• more recent authors have confused the institution with the D.C. Comics facility (see trivia, below).

Staff

Staff Members

Name	Position	Service Dates	Source
Groves	Orderly	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	EXP: Feeders from Within
Dr. Hardstrom	Asylum director	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	EXP: Feeders from Within
Dr. Lawson	Resident	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	EXP: Feeders from Within
Nurse Ling	Duty nurse	Full service unknown, active in 1946	EXP: Casefile: Arkham- Her Blood Runs Cold
Monroe	Orderly	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	EXP: Ghouls of the Miskatonic
Nurse Palmer	Senior nurse	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	EXP: Feeders from Within
Madeline Rothleschilde	Nurse	Unknown	EXP: Army of Darkness Vs. Re-Animator
Dr. Herbert West	Unknown	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	EXP: Feeders from Within

Patients

Patients

Name	Dates Treated	Source
Professor Henry Cartwright	Mid/Late 1920's	EXP: Ghouls of the Miskatonic
Diana Stanley	Mid/Late 1920s	EXP: Feeders from Within
Isaac "Icthyic Ike" Waite	Unknown, likely late 1990s	EXP: "The Slime Girls
Jack Walters	1915-1921	EXP: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Professor Thomas Wilkins	Unknown, possibly 1990s	EXP: "The Dig"

Trivia

• Arkham Asylum is the name of a high-security prison for the criminally insane in the Batman franchise of D.C. Comics.

Gallery

As depicted by Patrick McEvoy in Casefile: Arkham- Her Blood Runs Cold