Arkham

Arkham: Arkham is a fictitious city in Massachusetts created H.P. Lovecraft and featured in many of his stories (as well as subsequent ones by his fans). It was first mentioned in the short story "The Picture in the House": "Now I found myself upon an apparently abandoned road which I had chosen as the shortest cut to Arkham ..." Not coincidentally, Arkham has many similarities to Lovecraft's home town of Providence, Rhode Island.