Possibly less of a longshot? Possibly not.

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1) Lovecraft wrote quite a lot about Miskatonic University, and many of his stories featured professors from the school.  Am I missing a story in which he actually describes the school, or shows classes, or includes academic interactions between professors and students?  Or does it just sit there as an invisible background while people read scary letters from elsewhere?  (And yes, I know that Mount Holyoke gets used in the Whisperer in Darkness film.  I'm trying to figure out if there's anything in the original mythos I need to worry about.)(I'll probably end up using Mount Holyoke too, since Hampshire would be clearly inappropriate. Also since the library is awesome.)

2) Miskatonic is the next thing to an Ivy League.  Given the time period, and also given Lovecraft, it was obviously men-only for quite some time.  Has anyone ever speculated as to its sister school?

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And you're right--some actual description of the library in The Dunwich Horror. Also protagonists who actually do things, an Evil Albino, and some particularly awful dialect.

Thank you for the recommendations--that was tremendously useful, and now I feel comfortable making up the bits he didn't describe and screwing around with the ones he did.