Arkham is, of course, one of the best known of Lovecaft’s fictive geographic locales and he himself produced a rudimentary map of what is the Cthulhu mythos’ analogue of Salem. In terms of imagined urban topographies, this map of Arkham - from Chaosium’s Arkham Now supplement for the Call of Cthulhu rpg - is in some sense, doubly-duplicitous: not only does it depict an imaginary place, it detemporalises that place from its imagined time - one which was coeval with Lovecraft’s present - and retemporalises it within a different, imagined present contemporaneous with our own: Arkham as it might be today.
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