The Arkham Dossier

Selected Reports and Protocolls filed 1923-1935 by Howard P. Lovecraft



Electronic edition appended with Wikipedia article on the Author.

Centre for Anthropological Studies and the Occult
Miskatonic University, Arkham, Mass.
2005
 

This dossier collects the following documents filed by the renowned anthropologist Howard P. Lovecraft, chronicling certain disturbing events that took place in, nearby or relate in any way to the city of Arkham or our beloved alma mater,  Miskatonic University, during the first four decades of the 20th century:

The Unnamable,  a protocoll dated Septembre 1923.
It has been suggested by several authorities on the subject that the narrator of these events "Carter" may have been Randolph Carter or a relative to him. Unfortunately, the protocoll itself does not specify where and from whom Lovecraft obtained this singular statement.

The Festival,  written in Octobre of 1923.

The Silver Key,  written in 1926.
Discusses mysterious disappearance of Randolph Carter, contains ominous reference to Ulthar "beyond the River Skai".

The Strange High House in the Mist,  written Novembre 9, 1926.

The Colour Out of Space,  written in March of 1927.

The Dunwich Horror,  written in 1928.

The Whisperer in Darkness,  written Septembre 1930.

At the Mountains of Madness,  dated March of 1931.
Covers the ill-fated and much-rumored Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition of 1930. Incidentally mentions Leng and Kadath amongst many other unspeakable thing.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth,  written in 1931.
Detailed description of federal investigation and drastic measures taken in the harbour town during winter 1927-28.

Dreams in the Witch-House,  written January through Febuary of 1932.

The Thing on the Doorstep,  written in August of 1933.

The Shadow Out of Time,  written in March of 1935.
Statement of our late colleague Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, member of the Department of Economy since 1895, concerning his amnesia and strange behaviour of 1908-1913 and his expedition to Western Australia in 1935, as preserved in Lovecraft’s report to the President of our school.



Note: The following three reports by our esteemed colleague that also relate to Arkham have already been released to the public as separate electronic publications:

The Picture in the House, written Decembre 12th, 1919, published in July of 1920 in The National Amateur.

Herbert West: Reanimator, written Sep 1921-mid 1922, published in six parts, February-July 1922 in Home Brew, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-6.

The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, written in January of 1927, published in Beyond the Wall of Sleep.
Contains reference to 1920 document The Cats of Ulthar.
Also references Pickman's Model (written 1926, published October 1927 in Weird Tales),  which describes the grotesque occurances in Boston involving the justifiably infamous painter Richard Upton Pickman which so enraged the public at the time.