Oct 5, 2026 · 26 min · 11 segments
Welcome to Season One of Arkham Northside, a retrospective look at Arkham Horror, the Card Game. Today, we'll delve a little too deep into a few main, important locations around Arkham, and how…
It's probably wise or at least responsible at this point to address the, let's call it the elder thing in the room.
H.P. Lovecraft, whose work set much of the groundwork for the game Arkham Horror, was unequivocally racist, and his stories often reflected that racism.
Picture in the House is no exception.
In fact, it is an example.
It brings me some degree of joy to know that Lovecraft would probably despise the game Arkham Horror.
It's diverse, welcoming, and has one of the better online communities in board games.
It's sensitive, thoughtful, it's reflective, and when needed, it's apologetic.
As a side note, it is a little funny to me that the center of evil purportedly resides in the United States.
Of course it does.
Either way, it's the first mention of Arkham and the first mention of Miskatonic, although not in the context of the university.
It relies pretty heavily on racist undertones and overtones, and it doesn't really build at all on the mentions of Arkham or the Miskatonic Valley.
Only recently has the game really settled on the official lore of Arkham proper, and it goes something like this.
Ancient legend-haunted Arkham, people have lived on the site of modern-day Arkham for centuries, since long before the Puritans made landfall in Massachusetts, with ruins and relics from those time-lost days still to be found for those willing to look.
That and much of this episode is taken from the excellent compendium, Welcome to Arkham, which this podcast highly recommends.
It's probably wise or at least responsible at this point to address the, let's call it the elder thing in the room.
H.P. Lovecraft, whose work set much of the groundwork for the game Arkham Horror, was unequivocally racist, and his stories often reflected that racism.
Picture in the House is no exception.
In fact, it is an example.
It brings me some degree of joy to know that Lovecraft would probably despise the game Arkham Horror.
It's diverse, welcoming, and has one of the better online communities in board games.
It's sensitive, thoughtful, it's reflective, and when needed, it's apologetic.
As a side note, it is a little funny to me that the center of evil purportedly resides in the United States.
Of course it does.
Either way, it's the first mention of Arkham and the first mention of Miskatonic, although not in the context of the university.
It relies pretty heavily on racist undertones and overtones, and it doesn't really build at all on the mentions of Arkham or the Miskatonic Valley.
Only recently has the game really settled on the official lore of Arkham proper, and it goes something like this.
Ancient legend-haunted Arkham, people have lived on the site of modern-day Arkham for centuries, since long before the Puritans made landfall in Massachusetts, with ruins and relics from those time-lost days still to be found for those willing to look.
That and much of this episode is taken from the excellent compendium, Welcome to Arkham, which this podcast highly recommends.
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