"What lay behind our joint love of shadows and marvels was, no doubt, the ancient, mouldering, and sublty fearsome town in which we live - witch-cursed, legend-haunted Arkham, whose huddled, sagging gambrel roofs and crumbling Georgian balustrades brood out the centuries beside the darkly muttering Miskatonic."
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Thing on the Doorstep"