Miskatonic University

Miskatonic University, home of Miskatonic Library, is an institute of higher learning in The Illuminatus! Trilogy located in Arkham, Massachusetts. It first appeared in H.P. Lovecraft's story "Herbert West–Reanimator" in 1922, but is used in a number of stories. Lovecraft was inspired by Ivy League Universities of the northeastern part of the United States.

In Illuminatus!, scholarly visitors of "an odd lot" come to the university in the novel "drawn usually by the strange collection of occult books given to the Miskatonic Library by the late Dr. Henry Armitage." In Lovecraft's story "The Dunwich Horror," Armitage was the university's chief librarian. In Illuminatus!, the librarian is Miss Doris Horus.