[For previous entries, click the "Most Gothic Place Names" label under Features in the right sidebar.]
My sense of alphabetical order having been restored, I will turn back to survey Maryland today. This mid-Atlantic state contains places such as Mount Savage (the height of brutishness), Gravely (dour town), Spook Hill (where ghost sightings are always on the rise), Gores Mill (whose workers typically end up in Stumptown), Castles Rising (in homage to the Gothic architecture of Europe), Hack Point (bane of necking teenagers), Autumn Grove (deep in the heart of October Country), Etchison (Dennis's eastern residence?), and Chillum (the bodies will last longer that way). Still, it was easy to decide which place name in Maryland is the most Gothic:
Blair Woods. Forget Burkittsville; this place sounds like the true home of the faux-documentary horror film. And the last place in the entire state where you want to spend the night camping.
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