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I knew I was in for some plum discoveries when I learned that Colorado actually sports a place named Spook City. The state also features Wareland (you'd best tread carefully through this town's limits), Broomfield (a natural spot for witches' meetings), Brimstone Corner (bet the Sunday sermons aren't too cheery here), Castle Rock (King worship apparently persists in 21st-Century America), Matheson (a prime location for a Hell House), Skinners (where Leatherface's Coloradan brethren reside?), Troublesome (only ornery folk allowed), Resurrection Mill (this place just keeps churning out the undead), and Mad Creek (insanity runs throughout the community). But the most Gothic place name in Colorado belongs to...
Gothic. An absolute no-brainer of a decision. The mind boggles at the envisioned architecture, occupants, and incidents of intrigue and violence. This almost-allegorical appellation sounds like a mecca for the darkly bent, a locus of grotesquerie, and the perfect capital for the Macabre Republic.
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