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* ''Series/TheGhostandMrsMuir'': A historic fishing village in Maine. Fearsome haunted house just outside of town (especially in the pilot, when Claymore apprises the captain he had rented the seaside cottage to Mrs. Muir).

** It gets bonus points for the name being a reference to one of the bigger mysteries in American history - the disappearance of an entire colony in North Carolina.

* ''Series/TheGhostandMrs.Muir: A historic fishing village in Maine. Fearsome haunted house just outside of town (especially in the pilot, when Claymore apprises the captain he had rented the seaside cottage to Mrs. Muir).

* ''Series/TheGhostAndMrs.Muir: A historic fishing village in Maine. Fearsome haunted house just outside of town (especially in the pilot, when Claymore apprises the captain he had rented the seaside cottage to Mrs. Muir).

-> '''NOTE''': For the novel, see ''Literature/LovecraftCountry''. For the TV series, see [[Series/LovecraftCountry here]].

** HBO has [[http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/jordan-peele-hbo-lovecraft-country-jj-abrams-misha-green-1202429550 greenlit a new series]] based on the book.

* ''Film/TheLighthouse'' is, as the title suggests, set on a remote lighthouse off the coast of New England.

* The ''Webcomic/CarawayCrew'''s hometown is located on the coast of eldritch New England, which upon sits the ruins of an ancient temple and many characters are either directly or indirectly connected to something sinister.

* ''Film/The Lighthouse'' is, as the title suggests, set on a remote lighthouse off the coast of New England.

* ''RipVanWinkle'', ''Literature/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.

* Although not strictly Lovecraftian, the film ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'', being a loose adaptation of an 1819 horror story by Washington Irving, features a milieu that has much in common with Lovecraft Country. The film includes supernatural horrors, witchcraft and the cinematographic technique of using a blue camera filter to make everything seem bleaker in an isolated small town in early 19th century New York. This version's Ichabod Crane is a classic Lovecraftian protagonist in both origin and behavior.

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-> '''NOTE''': For the novel, see ''Literature/LovecraftCountry''. For the TV series/ see [[Series/LovecraftCountry here]].

-> '''''NOTE''': For the novel, see ''Literature/LovecraftCountry''.

-> '''''NOTE''': For the novel, see ''Literature/LovecraftCountry

Lovecraft Country is a dark, twisted version of [[{{Arcadia}} rural New England]] as used as a setting for horror fiction. Named for the author Creator/HPLovecraft -- a native of Rhode Island, [[{{Irony}} where there were no places named after him until 2013]] -- who wrote a number of tales set in a New England milieu, usually small isolated towns that look [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere boring and mediocre]] at first but [[TownWithADarkSecret are actually dark and foreboding on the inside]], populated by hostile and [[CorruptHick corrupt (in several ways) hicks]] that often are not quite human, twisted by the influence of ancient horrors and [[EldritchAbomination extradimensional aliens]] (and [[KissingCousins generations of inbreeding]]).

* Creator/WHPugmire prefers CampbellCountry but occasionally sets a story in [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth Innsmouth]], [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Dunwich]], or Kingsport.

Milder versions of this can be found in other types of horror. The setting trend was then continued by Creator/StephenKing, a more contemporary famous American horror writer, although he sets his stories in Maine as opposed to Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In fact you could divide it into southern New England being Lovecraft territory and northern New England as King country. If you don't want as many New England accents, upstate UsefulNotes/{{New York|State}} or the [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey Pine Barrens]] will do, although it probably won't be quite as Eldritch. New Jersey variants are particularly likely to be lighthearted or played for laughs, because, hey, {{Joisey}}. As for why this area seems to attract so much horror fiction (aside from Lovecraft and King [[WriteWhatYouKnow writing what they knew]] and other writers [[FollowTheLeader following the leader]])... if you ever go to New England in autumn or winter, you'll find it quite scenic during the day (the fall foliage is a major tourist magnet, as are the region's abundant ski resorts), but the sun sets early and it gets dark, cold, and spooky fast. Not so coincidentally, upstate New York is the birthplace of the Spiritualist movement. The [[WitchHunt Salem Witch Trials]] probably also have a role to play (cf. SalemIsWitchCountry). Expect a NewEnglandPuritan to show up, drawing on the region's history as a hotbed of religious fundamentalism in the region.

* OlderThanRadio: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) a short story set in [[LostWoods the woods]] outside [[UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies colonial]] Plymouth and involving [[DealWithTheDevil deals with the Devil himself]].

* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' might be this trope. While Riverdale's [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield exact location is never given]] it's suggested it's located in the Northeastern United States. Fitting considering it's a darker take on the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics Archie series]], borrowing heavily from ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'' (See Comic Books).

* Although not strictly Lovecraftian, the film ''Film/SleepyHollow'', being a loose adaptation of an 1819 horror story by Washington Irving, features a milieu that has much in common with Lovecraft Country. The film includes supernatural horrors, witchcraft and the cinematographic technique of using a blue camera filter to make everything seem bleaker in an isolated small town in early 19th century New York. This version's Ichabod Crane is a classic Lovecraftian protagonist in both origin and behavior.