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Along with Lynn Willis and Kevin Ross, he was responsible for crafting the “shape” of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu product line back in the early 1990s. Keith’s untimely death in 2009 robbed the world of a great visionary and game writer. We hope that this humble resource will help draw attention to the excellent depth of Keith’s original designs and allow other writers to more easily “play” in the sandbox that he created in Arkham Unveiled (1990).  \nClear Credit  \nThe Herber Arkham-O-Pedia was compiled in 2018 by Dean Engelhardt based on material that was published by Chaosium in a range of books: Arkham Unveiled, H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham, Fifth Edition Keeper’s Kit, and Tales of the Miskatonic Valley. All of those books are copyright by their respective authors. This volume contains no material sourced verbatim from those prior works, but rather compiles indices and reference lists that enhances the accessibility of the original material.  \nFor this material to be useful, you will need to own at least one of the Chaosium books mentioned above. Several of these books are (at the time of writing) out of print in physical form although most are available as PDFs.  \nThe text of this reference work is copyright © 2018 by Dean Engelhardt.  \nCover illustration is a montage based on photographs which are either in the public domain or were previously copyrighted but whose copyright has now expired.  \nThe Herber Arkham-O-Pedia Logo was created by Dean Engelhardt.  \nThe town of Arkham was created by H.P. Lovecraft.  \nThis PDF is released under an unported Creative Commons license. Permission is granted for free duplication and distribution, but all commercial exploitation rights of the intellectual  \nproperty are reserved by the authors.  \nIntroduction  \nThe witch-haunted college town of Arkham was first described by H.P. Lovecraft in numerous horror stories written between 1920 and 1935. As an aid to using this evocative setting in tabletop roleplaying games, Chaosium Inc. have published sourcebooks describing Arkhamas an enormous “sandbox”of people and places. This material appeared first under the title Arkham Unveiled (CHA2325, published 1990), and later as a revised edition (“H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham”, CHA8803 published 2003).  \nThe Chaosium characterisation of Arkham was primarily written by Keith “Doc” Herberin 1990. It represents perhaps the most detailed elaboration of Lovecraft’s original vision of the town to receive publication. The game setting was created with the specific goal of supporting investigative roleplaying games which make use of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu system, although some material invented for Herber’s version of Arkham has since infused its way into other games and stories as well.  \nWhile the intention of Herber and his collaborators was to map out a detailed setting upon which subsequent books and scenarios could build, such elaboration for the most part didn’t really happen. There have certainly been many Arkham-based scenarios published since that time, but most have not richly drawn upon the detailed and internally-consistent material written by Herber. Instead most scenario writers have picked a few isolated NPCs or locationsand used them as a springboard for their own invention—frequently running counter to the foundation set out in the original sourcebooks.  \nSo why has the excellent world-building work undertaken by Herber (and similarly by Kevin Ross for other Lovecraft Country locations) never been significantly built upon by others? We can hypothesize two explanations, either or both of which may be partially responsible. Firstly, it is true that Chaosium have not always been vigilent with keeping the Lovecraft Country sourcebooks in print. 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