Arkham Asylum

Arkham Asylum is a fictional institution in the Cthulhu Mythos inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Located in the city from which it takes its name, it is a sanatarium which exists for the treatment of the mentally ill.
Some sources posit that the asylum is not as innocent as it likes to appear: according to these, Dr. Herbert West used/uses the facility to continue his attempts at perfecting the re-agent (: Feeders from Within, Army of Darkness Vs. Re-Animator).
==Behind the Mythos==
It should be noted that the name Arkham Asylum is only used by later contributors to the Cthulhu Mythos: in Lovecraft's work Arkham Sanitarium is the city's mental health institution. As different sources show the two to be in existence at roughly the same time, there are several possible solutions: 
*the institutions have been conflated
* they are the same institution which was renamed at some point
* more recent authors have confused the institution with the D.C. Comics facility (see trivia, below).
==Staff==
Staff Members
Name 	Position 	Service Dates 	Source
Groves 	Orderly 	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	: Feeders from Within
Dr. Hardstrom 	Asylum director	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	: Feeders from Within
Dr. Lawson 	Resident 	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	: Feeders from Within
Nurse Ling 	Duty nurse 	Full service unknown, active in 1946 	: Casefile: Arkham- Her Blood Runs Cold
Monroe 	Orderly 	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	: Ghouls of the Miskatonic
Nurse Palmer 	Senior nurse 	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	: Feeders from Within
Madeline Rothleschilde	Nurse 	Unknown 	: Army of Darkness Vs. Re-Animator
Dr. Herbert West 	Unknown 	Full service unknown, active in the mid/late 1920s	: Feeders from Within
==Patients==
Patients
Name 	Dates Treated 	Source
Professor Henry Cartwright	Mid/Late 1920's 	: Ghouls of the Miskatonic
Diana Stanley 	Mid/Late 1920s 	: Feeders from Within
Isaac "Icthyic Ike" Waite 	Unknown, likely late 1990s	: "The Slime Girls
Jack Walters 	1915-1921 	: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Professor Thomas Wilkins 	Unknown, possibly 1990s 	: "The Dig"
==Trivia==
*Arkham Asylum is the name of a high-security prison for the criminally insane in the Batman franchise of D.C. Comics.
==Gallery==
Arkham Sanitarium (Casefile Arkham).jpeg|As depicted by Patrick McEvoy in Casefile: Arkham- Her Blood Runs Cold
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