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Nebraska fields a formidable lineup of town and city names, such as Vorhees (a place where Jason can cut loose), Huntsman (home of The Most Dangerous Game), Gross (a community bent on vulgarity), Point of Rocks (is to bash in brains?), Mason City (the secret order seems to have gone public), Devils Gap (where Ol' Scratch shops for new clothes), Keene (turned out a City of the Dead), Fort Crook (where bunko artists bunker down), and Loup City (a.k.a Lycanthropolis). But the Cornhusker State's most ominous cognomen is found in...
Gothenburg. Sounds like the site of a horrific dirigible crash. A place in ruins, stony and sepulchral. Or perhaps worst of all: somewhere overrun by moody, pallid teens in black ensembles.
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