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An empty English brick street descends toward a lake beneath wooded hills and an old institution.
Places

Brichester

Brichester is the principal fictional town in Ramsey Campbell’s Severn Valley geography. Its streets, institutions and surrounding settlements connect early Mythos fiction with later stories shaped by Campbell’s experience of English urban life.

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A dark city and a distant yellow-robed figure suggest Chambers’s imagined world.
Places

Carcosa

Carcosa is a vanished city in Ambrose Bierce’s An Inhabitant of Carcosa and an uncanny city associated with the forbidden play in Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow. The shared name creates a literary connection, while the stories give it different landscapes, narrative functions and degrees of explanation.

5 min read · 972 words

A dark sorcerer's tower overlooks a northern sea beneath distant glaciers; an imagined scene of Hyperborea.
Places

Hyperborea

Hyperborea is Clark Ashton Smith’s imaginary northern world of human kingdoms, wizards, lost learning and prehuman powers. Its cities stand above a much older subterranean world, while its remote past connects with the origins of life and its sorcerers can reach other planets. The setting accommodates grotesque comedy as well as cosmic terror, and its approaching ice gives human prosperity a temporary horizon.

5 min read · 1,033 words