[For previous entries, click the Most Gothic Place Names label under Features in the right sidebar.]
The Bluegrass State fields plenty of worthy candidates, such as Butchertown (an open call to massacre the populace?), Trapp (don't be fooled by the Welcome sign), Bladeston (which no doubt points straight to Stab), Oddville (a place perfectly in sync with the offbeat), Scythia (where the reaping is always grim), Goldbug (a real Poe-dunk town), Lookout (they're right behind you!), Carntown (an absolute freakshow), and Rockcastle (Castle Rock, in a glass darkly?). But getting my vote for the Most Gothic Place Name in Kentucky is...
Savage Branch. This assonant appellation suggests a piece of deadfall wielded like a cudgel, or some stout limb that has served as a legendary hanging post. Most of all, though, the name connotes a backwoods place settled by the roughest offshoots of one's family tree (the kind of relatives that are best kept distant).
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