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The Peach State positively teems with terrific names. There's Axson (Jack Torrance's favorite town), Black Spring (doom is in bloom), Friendly Village of Crooked Creek (duplicity personified), Quitman (population: one misanthropic recluse), Shadowland (in the heart of Straub County), Enigma (an utterly puzzling place), Scuffletown (where disorderly conduct's the norm), Scarecorn (the Halloween mazes must be something else), Farmers High (from cooking too much crystal meth?), and Coffinton (which no doubt points straight toward Graves Way). Such a rich crop made it hard to pick a single appellation, but my choice for the Most Gothic Place name in Georgia is...
Gore. "Gore, Georgia" just has a wonderful ring to it (like a hatchet blade on a grindstone). It suggests a municipality drenched in bloody deeds; a place where bulls break out of their pens and go on gruesome rampage. This sounds like the perfect spot for a splatter film festival, and the most likely town in the country to be ravaged by the effects of global warming.
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