Other tomes include the Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Friedrich von Junzt and the fragmentary Book of Eibon.įaculty and Student Body Main article: Miskatonic University: Faculty, Staff, Student Body and Alumni Notable students The library holds one of the very few genuine copies of the Necronomicon.
Miskatonic Museum: located on the University campus, holds a piece of jewelry implied to be a creation of the Deep Ones ( HPL: The Shadow Over Innsmouth).In early works by Lovecraft, Miskatonic is an apparently ordinary university whose occult undercurrent only occasionally breaks the surface, while later works tend towards portraying the stranger elements as being openly displayed and an integral part of the campus' cultural identity. Miskatonic University is modeled on northeastern Ivy League institutions of Lovecraft's day, like Harvard University, Yale University, and Dartmouth, and especially Brown University in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, which Lovecraft himself wished to attend.ĭepictions differ as to whether mystical and Mythos studies at the University are covert or overt. But this is only the beginning, and soon it is not only the crops and the cattle affected, but also the local population.Lovecraft has declared that the word was "a jumble of Algonquin language roots." ( EXP: The Lovecraft Lexicon) It shrinks in size, but will not cool, but as it diminishes, it leaves behinds deposits of colour, a new colour which has never been seenĪ year later and the crops have grown abundantly, but they are inedible, and it becomes clear that they have been infected. June 1882, a meteorite crashes onto the land of Nahum Gardner.
Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Herbert West – Reanimator has spawned several film adaptions.
But murder, cannibalism, and zombies, are amongst the world of terror awaiting those who meddle with the dead… That is the theory put forward by Herbert West, who with his specially invented serum, proposes to use his scientific skill to reanimate the deceased. What if the human body were just a complex organic machine? If it were possible to negate death by simply restarting the system?
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