[Lee Stewart]

Insane Asylum Inspires Lovecraft and Batman Then Becomes A Residential Community

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This is Danvers State Insane Asylum, the inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium "which in turn was the inspiration for Arkham Asylum in the Batman comic book series." Today, the building is part of Avalon Danvers, a pleasant residential community.

http://gizmodo.com/5484241/insane-as...tial-community

 

[MaxBurn]

Saw that on io9 this morning, was thinking I may take a drive through next time I am up that way, pretty close to it now.

 

[warrenP]

Imagine the home theater you could build in that house.

 

[PooperScooper]

Session 9 was filmed there. Very good movie!


larry

 

[Lee Stewart]



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H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium "which in turn was the inspiration for Arkham Asylum in the Batman comic book series

Ah . . . that explains where the name came from for the Batman series.


Never read much H.P Lovecraft

 

[Lee Stewart]

Additional Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danvers_State_Hospital


It is also used as the location of a book called Project 17:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_17

 

[oink]



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Originally Posted by MaxBurn /forum/post/18242593


Saw that on io9 this morning, was thinking I may take a drive through next time I am up that way, pretty close to it now.

Stop in and say "hello."

I'm in room# 258.

 

[lonwolf615]



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Originally Posted by PooperScooper /forum/post/18242867


Session 9 was filmed there. Very good movie!


larry

as soon as I saw the picture I thought it looked like Session 9, Thanks for confirming it.

 

[LineWalker]

My older brother used to work there when it was still an asylum. He's got a few ghost stories of his time there. Little wonder also that Session 9 is in his DVD library...

 

[lonwolf615]



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Originally Posted by LineWalker /forum/post/18250959


My older brother used to work there when it was still an asylum. He's got a few ghost stories of his time there. Little wonder also that Session 9 is in his DVD library...

that would be creepy...

 

[lwright84]

Didn't care for Session 9 whatsoever, but the building was certainly intriguing and creepy.. had more character than the film itself.