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Nevada was a tad deserted, but my search did turn up place names such as Carver Park (butchery in a bucolic scene), Deep Hole (you'll soon find yourself in over your head), Black Camp (sounds like an 80's slasher film), Ripley (a community devoted to oddity), Strawberry Hill (Horace Walpole's home-away-from-castle?), and Sundown Town (where the undead enjoy the nightlife). But the most Gothic name in the Silver State is mined from...
Manse. Imagine a town where every last domicile was a creepy old home. Or one where a single, sprawling mansion loomed over the rest of the community. Either way, this name evokes a place that houses the mysterious and the macabre.
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