History Main / LovecraftCountry

*** Arkham is Salem, albeit a bit further west.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''

* ''{{Dishonored}}'''s Empire of the Isles is set on an archipelago off the coast of the mysterious Pandyssian Continent, its residents follow a Lovecraftian state religion based on the belief that "the universe is unknowably vast and swarming with all manner of dangerous spirits and forces, most of which are hostile to man's existence", and the capital city is named Dunwall.
* ''BioshockInfinite'' begins at a creepy (and bloody) lighthouse on the coast of Maine. Its location also implies that the floating city of Columbia (itself one of the creepiest places one will ever visit) is high in the sky above the state, though it isn't considered part of the state.

* ''WesternAnimation/Paranorman'', being an Main/AffectionateParody of the horror genre is obviously set in Massachusetts.

* ''GravityFalls'' would count, the only difference is its in [[TheOtherRainforest Oregon]].

* The Literature/WhateleyUniverse: [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]], although canonically set in New Hampshire, is an easy walk from Dunwich - appropriate, given that the main character of ''The Dunwich Horror'' was named Wilbur Whateley - and a nice drive from Arkham. Even closer are a variety of Class X sites so Lovecraftian and dangerous that even superpowered mutants can't deal with what's there. There's even a truly horrific site in the campus sewer system.

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For analogous settings outside of New England, see CampbellCountry. Compare and contrast HollywoodNewEngland.

* ''KingdomHospital'', the U.S. remake of Lars Von Trier's excellent darkly humorous ghost story ''Series/{{Riget}}'' (known as ''The Kingdom'' to Anglos) is set in a New England hospital, possibly because the legacy of Lovecraft Country in fiction assured that it would be perceived as the most suitable locale, but also because the adapted screenplay was written by Creator/StephenKing.

* ''StormoftheCentury'' was a Creator/StephenKing miniseries set on Little Tall Island (a central character in KingdomHospital evidently came from there). Apart from a veritable brew of dark secrets, much of the town engaged in a pact with darkness.

* Forget the current WordOfGod that it's in New Jersey, or the usual assumption that it's "New York at night": [[{{Batman}} Gotham City]] is clearly smack in the middle of Lovecraft Country. In fact, Arkham Asylum, the CardboardPrison all of Batman's villains end up in, is named after one of Lovecraft's towns.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' places [[{{Batman}} Gotham City]] in Connecticut.

* ''Literature/RipVanWinkle'', ''TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'' and other Washington Irving stories, if you push the definition to include upstate New York. "The Devil and Tom Walker" would be a good example as well as, like "Young Goodman Brown," it has a theme of Puritans seeking out {{Satan}} en masse.

* "Rip Van Winkle" and other Washington Irving stories, if you push the definition to include upstate New York. "The Devil and Tom Walker" would be a good example as well as, like "Young Goodman Brown," it has a theme of Puritans seeking out {{Satan}} en masse.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," a short story set in [[LostWoods the woods]] outside [[TheColonialPeriod colonial]] Plymouth and involving [[DealWithTheDevil deals with the Devil himself]], making this OlderThanRadio.
** Hawthorne's ''The House Of The Seven Gables'' is a gothic haunted house story that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, and according to Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} was apparently a big influence on Lovecraft's writings.

* The overwhelming majority of Creator/StephenKing's stories are set in Lovecraft Country, though mostly in Maine, whereas Lovecraft set most of his stories in his own Rhode Island or in nearby Massachusetts. This is because [[WriteWhatYouKnow King is a Maine native]]. Not only is Maine Lovecraft Country according to Creator/StephenKing, he [[WordOfGod specifically pinpoints]] the source of all related supernatural weirdness in places such as the fictional town of Derry, Maine and -- er -- [[TheDarkTower himself]].

* ''KingdomHospital'', the U.S. remake of Lars Von Trier's excellent darkly humorous ghost story ''{{Riget}}'' (known as ''The Kingdom'' to Anglos) is set in a New England hospital, possibly because the legacy of Lovecraft Country in fiction assured that it would be perceived as the most suitable locale, but also because the adapted screenplay was written by Creator/StephenKing.