Miskatonic University was also featured in the fifth episode of Netflix's 2022 anthology television series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities entitled " Pickman's Model" starring Ben Barnes. Miskatonic's medical school features in "Herbert West-Reanimator". Other tomes include Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Friedrich von Junzt and the fragmentary Book of Eibon. The library holds one of the very few genuine copies of the Necronomicon. Miskatonic University is famous for its collection of occult books. Alan Moore's 2015–2017 comic Providence used Saint Anselm College as the "real" Miskatonic University. The film uses Pasadena City College for interior scenes of the school. Lovecraft Historical Society chose Mount Holyoke College. To represent Miskatonic University in their film adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness in 2009, the H. The only female student mentioned is Asenath Waite, of Lovecraft's " The Thing on the Doorstep" (1937). In Lovecraft's stories, the university's student body is implied to be all-male, much like northeastern universities of Lovecraft's time. Miskatonic University is modeled on the northeastern Ivy League universities of Lovecraft's day, perhaps Brown University of his hometown Providence which Lovecraft himself wished to attend. A map of Arkham, Massachusetts, hand-drawn by Lovecraft
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