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* The Hungarian village of Stregiocavar in [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''[[The Black Stone]]''.

* While [[Stephen King]] normally sets his stories in [[Lovecraft Country]], his short story ''Crouch End'' was a Cthulhu Mythos story set in Crouch End in north London.

** Heck, the mere tone and description of the place they lived in sounds a little Lovecraftian itself. No wonder Tom Riddle [[Creepy Child|turned out so screwed up...]]

** ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' also contains the Isle of Drear off the northern tip of Scotland, where the deadly monsters called Quintapeds are contained. In fact, Hogwarts' own location might qualify, set off as it is in an unregarded bit of Scotland (being Unplottable helps).

* [[Charles Stross]] did a neat thing with ''[[The Laundry Series]]'' (essentially [[Spy Fiction]] meets [[Cosmic Horror Story]]): the English lost city of Dunwich (which Lovecraft used as a name for a fictional town) was not lost at all, but rather the training ground for the Laundry, a secret organization that prevents "reality incursions." Apparently someone in the Laundry noticed the very odd census reports, and the citizens were relocated and the town erased off the maps. The only way to get there is with a specially-programmed GPS unit and a key for the appropriate wards.

** Stross' Dunwich is also slowly sinking into the water.