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===Lovecraft's fiction=== ''Dates are the year written.'' Arkham first appeared in Lovecraft's short story "[[The Picture in the House]]"<ref name="The Dunwich horror and others">{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft|others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S. T. Joshi|title=The Dunwich horror and others|date=1963|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, Wis.|isbn=0870540378|page=[https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/117 117]|edition=corrected 7. printing|url=https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/117}}</ref> (1920), which is also the first to mention "Miskatonic".<ref name="The Dunwich horror and others"/> It appears in other stories by Lovecraft, including: * "[[Herbert West–Reanimator]]" (1921–[[1922 in literature|1922]]); first story to mention "Miskatonic University"<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lovecraft|first1=H. P.|others= selected by August Derleth, text edited by S. T. Joshi, introduction by T. E. D. Klein|title=Dagon and other macabre tales|date=1987|publisher=Arkham House Publishers|location=Sauk City, Wis.|isbn=0870540394|page=133|edition=Corr. 5th print.}}</ref> * "[[The Unnamable (short story)|The Unnamable]]" (1923)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lovecraft|first1=H. P.|others= selected by August Derleth, text edited by S. T. Joshi, introduction by T. E. D. Klein|title=Dagon and other macabre tales|date=1987|publisher=Arkham House Publishers|location=Sauk City, Wis.|isbn=0870540394|page=200|edition=Corr. 5th print.}}</ref> * "[[The Silver Key]]" (1926)<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft|others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S. T. Joshi|title=At the mountains of madness, and other novels|date=1985|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, WI|isbn=0870540386|page=413|edition=Corr. 7. print.}}</ref> * "[[The Colour Out of Space]]" (1927)<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P. |last1=Lovecraft |others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch |editor=S. T. Joshi|title=The Dunwich horror and others|date=1963|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, Wis.|isbn=0870540378|page=[https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/53 53]|edition=corrected 7. printing|url=https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/53}}</ref> * "[[The Dunwich Horror]]" (1928)<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft|others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S. T. Joshi|title=The Dunwich horror and others|date=1963|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, Wis.|isbn=0870540378|page=[https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/165 165]|edition=corrected 7. printing|url=https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/165}}</ref> * "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" (1930); Albert N. Wilmarth is described as a folklorist and assistant professor of English at Miskatonic University. * ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]'' (1931); one of the ships is named ''Arkham'' and the expedition that is the story’s subject is commissioned and financed by Miskatonic University<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft|others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S. T. Joshi|title=At the mountains of madness, and other novels|date=1985|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, WI|isbn=0870540386|page=6|edition=Corr. 7. print.}}</ref> * ''[[The Shadow over Innsmouth]]'' (1931)<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft|others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S. T. Joshi|title=The Dunwich horror and others|date=1963|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, Wis.|isbn=0870540378|page=[https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/305 305]|edition=corrected 7. printing|url=https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/305}}</ref> * "[[The Dreams in the Witch House]]" (1932)<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft|others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S. T. Joshi|title=At the mountains of madness, and other novels|date=1985|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, WI|isbn=0870540386|page=262|edition=Corr. 7. print.}}</ref> * "[[Through the Gates of the Silver Key]]" (1932–1933)<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft|others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S. T. Joshi|title=At the mountains of madness, and other novels|date=1985|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, WI|isbn=0870540386|page=422|edition=Corr. 7. print.}}</ref> * "[[The Thing on the Doorstep]]" (1933); first to mention "Arkham Sanitarium"<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft |others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S. T. Joshi|title=The Dunwich horror and others|date=1963|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, Wis.|isbn=0870540378|page=[https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/276 276]|edition=corrected 7. printing|url=https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/276}}</ref> * "[[The Shadow Out of Time]]" (1934–1935)<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. P.|last1=Lovecraft|others=selected by August Derleth, introduction by Robert Bloch|editor=S.T. Joshi|title=The Dunwich horror and others|date=1963|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, Wis.|isbn=0870540378|page=[https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/370 370]|edition=corrected 7. printing|url=https://archive.org/details/dunwichhorroroth0000love/page/370}}</ref>
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