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To no surprise, the state that produced Stephen King also offers a rich crop of appellations. There's Foggs Corner (gloomy atmosphere galore), Suckerville (maybe Salem's Lot isn't the only town in Maine with a vampire problem), Lynchville (not somewhere you want to hang around), Deep Cut (comes just after Cleaves Landing), Ketchum (a terrible place to visit in the Off Season), Burnt Mill (such industrial ruin makes a fine home for haunting), Steep Falls (suicidal paradise), and Tainter Corner (where everyone's touched by corruption). All great names, but none of them can hold a candle to...
Dark Harbor. This sounds like a more northeastern version of Lovecraft's Innsmouth, or the perfect epithet for Collinsport in the classic TV series Dark Shadows. Most of all, though, the name suggests a place of sinister concealment, a town full of sheltered fugitives and closeted skeletons.
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