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01/29/2025

Arkham_Sanitarium_Props

There's an amazing blog called Propnomicon that covers a variety of hollywood style props inspired by the works of horror writer HP Lovecraft. There have been some excellent Interactive Fiction stories in this genre or horror, going all the way back to Infocom's The Lurking Horror by Dave Lebling as well as more modern games like Anchor Head, The Awakening among others.

I first stumbled across this site while looking for information about Dennis Wheatley’s 1936 police dossier book ” Murder off Miami .” Wow. What a discovery! Who knew there was a whole world of creative talent out there building these kinds of pseudo-historic props? I was blown away by some of the items I saw. Many of the items are about the fictional town of Arkham and it’s mysterious Misktatonic University and Sanitarium . There are postcards, specimen tags, ID cards, staff badges, field notebooks, hospital patient files, admission forms, crests, seals, logos –you name it. All of it quite authentic looking and very scary, kids. You can also get t-shirts and the like on Propnomicon’s Zazzle store.
Miskatonic notebooks

Most of the materials are available under a creative commons license. Heck, I'm thinking a few of these items could tie together some background on a story I'm working on, time permitting.

Arkham_notebook

If anyone has a spare Miskatonic University notebook they'd like to donate or swap, let me know.

Posted at 09:12 AM in Books, Films, Radio etc| Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: anchor head, Arkham Sanitarium, dave lebling, HP Lovecraft, Lurking horror, Miskatonic University, Propnomicon

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They’re great, aren’t they? He’s got them up for auction on ebay. (Link in the 15 Sept post)

Posted by: IFlurker | 01/29/2025 at 03:34 PM

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