Miskatonic University is a fictional college in Arkham whose library is famous for holding one of the few surviving original copies of the Necronomicon. Expeditions and research in the Mythos often set out from here.
The idea of forbidden knowledge kept in scholarly form distills the structure of cosmic horror, in which curiosity toward knowledge becomes the doorway to ruin. It is also a stage of the Pnakotic Press prologue cycle.