Robert E. Howard was a fan and friend of H. P. Lovecraft, a fellow contributor to Weird Tales magazine.
Lovecraft set many of his stories in the crumbling, spooky, “witch-haunted” fictional town of Arkham, Mass.
The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, commonly referred to simply as Arkham Asylum, is a fictional psychiatric hospital in the DC Comics Universe, usually appearing in stories featuring Batman.
Bedlam is the popular name for the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, London, an insane asylum. Bedlam was a synonym for ‘lunatic’, but now just generally means ‘a place, scene, or state of uproar and confusion’.
“lunatic” refers to the old belief that the phases of the moon somehow affected or controlled one’s mental state. In Slavic languages, “lunatic” means “sleepwalker.”
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was so named because it was founded on Christmas Eve.
ETA: Ouch!
Ebenezer Scrooge has his adventures - or were they only a dream? - on Christmas Eve.
Italian composer Bellini wrote an opera called “La Sonnambula,” or “The Sleepwalker.”
The song “Juke Box Music” appears on the Kinks’ “Sleepwalker” album.
Catania, Sicily, the birthplace of Vincenzo Bellini, is home to the University of Catania, the oldest university in Sicily.
Bellini, like Mozart, Bizet and Liszt, was a child prodigy.
Lisztomania the current hit song from the album *Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix *.
“Amadeus” is a Latinized version of Mozart’s real middle name, which was "Theophilus.
Franz Liszt’s daughter Cosima married Richard Wagner, and later directed the Bayreuth Festival, dedicated to Wagner’s operas.
Richard Wagner was a favourite of “Crazy” Ludwig (King Ludwig II of Bavaria) and benefited from his patronage.
Ludwig, of course, was best known for building castles. The most famous of these, Neuschwanstein, was the model for Cinderella’s castle at DisneyLand.
Phil Simms was the first player to utter the famous phrase, “I’m going to Disneyland” after winning the Super Bowl.
Steve Martin’s first job was selling programs at Disneyland.
Disneyland was the “inspiration” for Wally World in National Lampoon’s Vacation, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo.
Steve Martin was on the writing staff of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The head writer was Mason Williams, who composed the instrumental standard Classical Gas.
(I’ll keep that fact up, but ElvisL1ves played the last valid domino.)