The Bolton Worsted Mills are fictional industrial facilities created by the late American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft for his 1922 short story "Herbert West--Reanimator".
Overview[]
A group of textile manufacturing plants in the fictional factory town of Bolton, Massachusetts, the Mills were located near Arkham (worsted refers to a type of cloth). They were the largest such mills in the Miskatonic Valley. The immigrant workers were described as a rough and tumble bunch, and enjoyed competing in secret boxing matches since the sport was outlawed in Bolton. One of the workers, a man named Buck Robinson, was killed in one of these secret matches. His body was used by Herbert West as a test subject for his experiments involving the reanimation of the dead. (HPL: "Herbert West--Reanimator")