Danvers State Hospital - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The hospital was the setting for the 2001 horror film, Session 9. The asylum was also featured in the 1958 film Home Before Dark.
• In the game Painkiller, one of the levels, called Asylum, is based on the central administration section. While the outside is a faithful reproduction, the inside is not.
• In the book Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz, the plot involves six teens breaking into Danvers, to investigate the allegedly haunted asylum.
• In the tabletop RPG Mage: The Awakening, the hospital's reflection in the World of Darkness was administrated by soul-stealing Tremere vampires, who fed upon their patients.
• "The Danvers State" is a song by Portland artist Archeology which appears on the band's second E.P. The Wildwood Hymns.
• The Hospital is commonly used as a theme and icon in the animation and video art of Boston artist Fluffy Conti.
• The Danvers State Hospital is largely believed to have served as inspiration for the infamous Arkham sanatorium from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep". (Lovecraft's Arkham, in turn, is the inspiration for Arkham Asylum, a psychiatric hospital within the Batman universe.) It is referenced by name in the short story, "Pickman's Model."