List of fictional towns in literature

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This is a list of fictional towns in literature.

Town name Author Origin Notes
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Abbot's-Cernel, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Cerne Abbas, Dorset.
Abbotsea, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Abbotsbury, Dorset.
Adenville, Utah John D. Fitzgerald The Great Brain and other books in the Great Brain series Adenville is a small town in Utah, around AD 1900.
Adytum Various SCP Foundation The lost Eurasian capital of the fallen Daevite and Kalmaktama empires, and a legendary holy place in Sarkicism.
Alagadda Various SCP Foundation Also named SCP-2264-B. An Italian city-state banished from Earth due to the dealing of its corrupt monarch, the Hanged King.
Aldbrickham, North Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Reading, Berkshire.
Alfredston, North Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Wantage, Oxfordshire.
Algonquin Bay, Canada Giles Blunt Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season, By the Time You Read This, Crime Machine Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay.
Alissar Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Al-Ybi Terry Pratchett Discworld Al-Ybi is a mostly unremarkable desert city in Klatch. Al-Ybi's reputation for boringness has entered it in folklore as the place where Klatchians invented the concept of zero.
Amber Roger Zelazny The Chronicles of Amber
Anchorage-in-Vineland Philip Reeve Mortal Engines Quartet Anchorage-in-Vineland is the static and stable version of the Traction City of Anchorage that had decided to stop wandering the Arctic wastes and settle in the green and unspoilt land of Vineland (a.k.a. the Dead Continent), what was left of the continent of North America after the Sixty Minute War. When Anchorage was a Traction City, it was not predatory but gained its wealth by trading with other cities, due to more scrupulous leaders.
Anglebury, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Wareham, Dorset.
Ankh-Morpork Sir Terry Pratchett Discworld The principal setting for most of the novels of the series, it is viewed as being the foremost city on the Disc.
Aramanth William Nicholson Wind On Fire fictional walled city in the world of William Nicholson's Wind On Fire trilogy. It is destroyed in the second book, Slaves of the Mastery when Ortiz and his raiding company attack and take the whole population (minus Kestrel) as slaves for the Mastery. Aramanth later becomes part of the Sovereignty of Gang under Bowman and Sisi's leadership.
Arkham, Massachusetts H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft's work & Cthulhu Mythos
Atlantis Plato Timaeus & Critias See Atlantis in popular culture.
Avonlea, Prince Edward Island Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Aziz Balda C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia A city south of the Calormen capital, Tashbaan. 'Aziz Balda is a hub where many roads meet, and lays host to the Calormene government's postal system.
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Barchester, England Anthony Trollope Chronicles of Barsetshire
Bayport Franklin W. Dixon The Hardy Boys
Bear Country Stan and Jan Berenstain The Berenstain Bears
Beerlight Steve Aylett The Crime Studio
Belisaere Garth Nix Old Kingdom
Bellona Samuel R. Delany Dhalgren
Belvedere, Ohio Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
Berylon Patricia A. McKillip Song for the Basilisk
Bes Pelargic Terry Pratchett Discworld A harbor town in the Agatean Empire.
Bibliopolis, Alabama Tom Sharpe The Great Pursuit Stereotypical Southern USA Bible Belt town.
Blackbury, England Terry Pratchett Truckers
Boaktis Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Boston Atlanta Metropolitan Axis William Gibson Neuromancer
Bönk Terry Pratchett Discworld Pronounced /biˈjɒŋk/, it is a town in Überwald.
Bordertown Terri Windling Borderland
Braavos George R.R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire
, England Agatha Christie Miss Marple series
Bramshurst, Upper Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Lyndhurst, Hampshire.
Bree J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
Brewer, Pennsylvania John Updike Rabbit series
Brockton Bay, USA John "Wildbow" McCrae Worm
Buckkeep Town Robin Hobb The Realm of the Underlings
Budmouth, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Weymouth, Dorset.
Bursley, England Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns
Busytown Richard Scarry Best Word Book Ever
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Cape Random, Newfoundland Bernice Morgan Random Passage
Caprona Diana Wynne Jones The Magicians of Caprona Caprona is a sovereign city-state in the world of the Chronicles of Chrestomanci series.
Casterbridge, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Dorchester, Dorset.
Castle Rock, Maine Stephen King The Dead Zone
Cedar Cove Debbie Macomber Cedar Cove and Rose Harbor series A quaint, picturesque town on an island in Puget Sound in Washington state
Centennial, Colorado James Michener Centennial
Chalk Newton, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Maiden Newton, Dorset.
Chaseborough, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Cranborne, Dorset.
Chasm City Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space
Chester's Mill Stephen King Under the Dome
, England Agatha Christie Miss Marple series
Christminster, North Wessex Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Correlates to the real-life Oxford, Oxfordshire
Chronopolis J.G. Ballard Chronopolis
Cittàgazze Philip Pullman His Dark Materials series
City of the Happy Prince Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Stories
City of the Iron Fish Simon Ings City of the Iron Fish
Clanton, Mississippi John Grisham A Time to Kill Several of Grisham's other novels also take place, in whole or in part, in Clanton.
Cleaves Mills, Maine Stephen King The Dead Zone
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Cliff Martin, Outer Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Combe Martin, Devon.
Cresscombe, North Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire.
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Dale J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
Daleport, USA Tanhony & FlameShirt SCP Foundation Also known as SCP-1936 and Nexus-37. A New England coastal town that has been uninhabited by humans since 1997, when a cult named the Victor Society summoned multiple bizarre and violent deities in an attempt to 'cleanse' the town.
Darnley Philip George Chadwick The Death Guard
Darrowby, Yorkshire James Herriot It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Darujhistan Steven Erikson Gardens of the Moon Darujhistan is a large city on the continent Genebackis.
Deansleigh, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Romsey, Hampshire.
Denton, England R.D. Wingfield A Touch of Frost Denton is a town in southern England, in either Berkshire, Oxfordshire, or Wiltshire.
Derry, Maine Stephen King The Bird and the Album Mentioned in several stories, Derry first appeared as the main setting in It.
Desperation, Nevada Stephen king Desperation
Dhagabad Anna Kashina The Princess of Dhagabad
Diaspar Arthur C. Clarke The City and the Stars
Dictionopolis Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
Digitopolis Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
Diomira Italo Calvino Invisible Cities
Dis Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy Dis is the city containing the lower circles of Hell.
Dorotea Italo Calvino Invisible Cities
Downstaple, Lower Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Barnstaple, Devon.
Dras-leona Christopher Paolini Eragon It is the second biggest city in Alagaesia after Uru'Baen.
Duchy of Grand Fenwick Leonard Wibberley The Mouse that Roared
Dunwich, Massachusetts H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft's work & Cthulhu Mythos
Durnover, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Fordington, Dorset.
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Earth City Christopher Priest Inverted World
Eastwick, London Julian Barnes Metroland
Eastwick, Massachusetts John Updike The Witches of Eastwick
Edgestow, England C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength
Edoras J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings The capital of Rohan
El Dorado Voltaire Candide A fabled city of gold located in South America.
El-Ysa Terry Pratchett Discworld A village in Klatch whose inhabitants were killed when their well was poisoned.
Ember Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
Emerald City L. Frank Baum Various Oz Books The Emerald City is the capital of the Land of Oz, the Emerald City. It is entirely (in the first books) or mostly (in later books) green. The city is made of green glass, emeralds, and other jewels.
Emminster, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Beaminster, Dorset.
Emond's Field Robert Jordan New Spring
Empire Falls, Maine Richard Russo Empire Falls
Endelstow, Off Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life St. Juliot, Cornwall.
Entralla Edward Carey
Eos Isaac Asimov Robot series Eos is the capital city of the planet Aurora.
Esgaroth J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
Evarchia Brigid Brophy
Evershead, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Evershot, Dorset.
Everville, USA Clive Barker Everville
Exonbury, Lower Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Exeter, Devon.
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Fallen Area Steve Berman Various works
Fountall, Outer Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Wells, Somerset.
French Landing, Wisconsin Stephen King & Peter Straub Black House
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Galt's Gulch Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Gao Village Wu Cheng'en Journey to the West
Garmouth, England Robert Westall The Machine Gunners
Garradrimna Brinsley MacNamara Valley of the Squinting Windows
Gaymead, North Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Theale, Berkshire.
Gebra Terry Pratchett Discworld A heavily fortified harbor town in Klatch that was a target of the Ankh-Morporkian invasion force in the Leshp-war.
Genua Terry Pratchett Discworld
Gibbsville, Pennsylvania John O'Hara Appointment in Samarra A fictionalized version of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. A common setting of O'Hara stories, Gibbsville was also the setting of a television movie and short-lived series.
Glen St. Mary, Prince Edward Island L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Glimmerdagg, Sweden Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson Sune
Glogova, Hungary Kálmán Mikszáth St. Peter's Umbrella Glogova is a very poor settlement near Beszterce, not even the Selmecbánya-Beszterce railway line stops in the village. As a result of a mysterious event connected to St. Peter, it becomes a popular place of pilgrimage.
Godric's Hollow, England J.K. Rowling Harry Potter series
Golden Glow, Winnemac, USA Sinclair Lewis Work of Art Golden Glow is a city described as a "dirty and noisy industrial huddle".
Gopher Prairie, Minnesota Sinclair Lewis Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott
Gormenghast Mervyn Peake Gormenghast series
Govannion Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Gowburgh, Scotland Robin Jenkins Guests of War
Great Gusliar, Vologda Oblast Kir Bulychev Russian: Великий Гусляр Velikiy Guslyar. Great Gusliar is a small, seemingly-quiet town that happens to attract all kinds of science-fiction phenomena, including aliens, time travelers, magical creatures, mad scientists.
Green Town, Illinois Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine
Grimeworth, Yorkshire Michael Parkinson The Woofits
Grover's Corner, New Jersey Keith Robertson Henry Reed, Inc.
Guildstead Carbonell Tom Sharpe Blott on the Landscape
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Hadleyburg Mark Twain The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Haliford, Yorkshire J.B. Priestley They Walk in the City A Yorkshire industrial town suffering the economic crisis of the 1930s, similar to real towns well known to writer from his own childhood
C.S. Lewis The Silver Chair
Hanbridge Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns
Hav Jan Morris Last Letters from Hav
Haven, Maine Stephen King The Tommyknockers
Haven Simon R. Green Hawk and Fisher: No Haven for the Guilty Haven is a southern port city-state in the Low Kingdoms ridden with crime and corruption.
Haven City Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series
Havenpool, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Poole, Dorset.
Henrietta, Virginia Maggie Stiefvater The Raven Cycle Series
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Hobbiton J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
Hogsmeade, Ireland J.K. Rowling Harry Potter series
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Ilium, New York Kurt Vonnegut Various works Considered a stand-in for the actual cities of Schenectady and Troy, New York. Featured or referenced in Vonnegut's novels Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Player Piano, and Galápagos.
Imrryr, Melniboné Michael Moorcock The Dreaming City Imrryr, also known as the Dreaming City and Imrryr the Beautiful, was the capital city of Melniboné for a 10,000-year-old dynasty until the last emperor, Elric of Melniboné, burnt it to the ground. Prior to its destruction, Imrryr had tall towers that shone with many different colors in the light of the sun, and a seaport that was one of the most important trading hubs on the planet.
Innsmouth, Massachusetts H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft's work & Cthulhu Mythos
Instruere Russell Kirkpatrick Fire of Heaven Instruere is the capital of Faltha.
Ínsula Barataria Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Ir Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Iraz Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A non-Novarian city-state distantly-located from any Novarian city-state.
Isidora Italo Calvino Le città invisibili
Isle of Slingers, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Isle of Portland, Dorset.
Isola Evan Hunter 87th Precinct The urban city that is the setting for the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter).
Ivell, Outer Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Yeovil, Somerset.
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Jacksonburg, Ishmaelia Evelyn Waugh Scoop Jacksonburg is the capital city of Ishmaelia, a fictional country in eastern Africa.
Jaggonath C.S. Friedman Black Sun Rising A human port city, one of the largest settlements in Erna's western hemisphere.
Jahilia Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Jefferson, Mississippi William Faulkner Sartoris, later novels and shorter works County seat of Yoknapatawpha County, the setting of most of Faulkner's novels.
Jerusalem's Lot, Maine Stephen King 'Salem's Lot
K
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Kennetbridge, North Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Newbury, Berkshire.
Kennituck Falls Bruce Coville My Teacher Is an Alien
Kharé Steve Jackson Fighting Fantasy
Kingsbere, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Bere Regis, Dorset.
Kingsmarkham, Sussex Ruth Rendell From Doon with Death
King's Landing George R.R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire King's Landing is the royal capital of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms.
Kingsport, Massachusetts H.P. Lovecraft The Terrible Old Man
Kingsport, Yorkshire Winifred Holtby South Riding A major English seaport town fictional city setting in the classic novel, analogous to the location of Kingston-upon-Hull
Kinneret, California Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Knollsea, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Swanage, Dorset.
Knype Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns
Kocourkov Ondřej Sekora
Kom Terry Pratchett Discworld
Kor H. Rider Haggard She: A History of Adventure
Kortoli Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Krasnoy, Orsinia Ursula K. Le Guin Malafrena
Kravonia Anthony Hope Sophy of Kravonia
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Lakeport Laura Lee Hope The Bobbsey Twins
Lake Wobegon, Minnesota Garrison Keillor various works
Laku Evelyn Waugh Scoop
Lamplight Tufto SCP Foundation Designated SCP-5005. The most remote settlement created by a sentient creature and the most remote matter in existence. Lamplight was named after a giant lamp suspended over the town, (SCP-5005-1; in actuality a cybernetic esca for a colossal deceased anglerfish), and was founded by a poet named Jean-Antoine Delacroix when he accidentally discovered the location while attempting suicide by blindly teleporting into antimatter at the end of the multiverse. Locals refuse to question the nature of the land, a curiosity that contributes to the significant suicide and disappearance rates in tourists.
Terry Pratchett Discworld Capital of Lancre
Landing City David Weber Honorverse series Capital of the .
Lankhmar Fritz Leiber Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
Lehigh Station, Pennsylvania John Jakes North and South
Levenford, Scotland A.J. Cronin Country Doctor
Liavek Various authors Liavek
Lichfield, USA James Branch Cabell Lichfield is a town in the southern United States, probably in Virginia.
Lilliput Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Lindalino Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Little Whinging, Surrey J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Llareggub, Wales Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood "bugger all" spelled backwards
London, South Dakota David Baldacci An oil boomtown.
Longshaw Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns
Lower Tadfield, Oxfordshire Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Good Omens
Luc Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter
Lud Stephen King Dark Tower series
Lulwind Cove, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Lulworth Cove, Dorset.
Lumsdon, North Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Cumnor, Oxfordshire.
Lutenblag Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry Capital of the eponymous nation.
Lys Arthur C. Clarke The City and the Stars
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Maardam Håkan Nesser Det grovmaskiga nätet A city in northern Europe.
Macondo Gabriel Garcia Marquez La Hojarasca The town was first mentioned in La Hojarasca and La Mala Hora before appearing as a setting in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Malgudi R.K. Narayan Malgudi Days Malgudi is a fictional town in India created by R.K. Narayan in his novels and short stories. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works.
Manawaka, Manitoba Margaret Laurence The Stone Angel The town is also used in Daniel Poliquin's novel L'écureuil noir.
Mansoul John Bunyan The Holy War
Allama Muhammad Iqbal Javid Nama Mentioned in Allama Iqbal's epic poem Javid Nama, the city of Marghdeen is depicted as a welfare state based on divine principles for humanity. It depicts the purist and the noblest level of any human society, one can imagine. The city of absolute peace in Javid Nama.
Mariposa, Ontario Stephen Leacock Various short stories
Marlott, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Marnhull, Dorset.
Marygreen, North Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Fawley, Berkshire..
Maycomb, Alabama Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Melchester, Mid Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Mellstock, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Stinsford, Dorset.
Menzoberranzan Ed Greenwood Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms
Metouro Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Michel Delving J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings
Middlemarch, England George Eliot Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life Middlemarch is a town in Midland England.
Middleton, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Milton Abbas, Dorset.
Midland City, Ohio Kurt Vonnegut Deadeye Dick, Breakfast of Champions Midland City is a generic Midwestern town modeled off the author's hometown.
Midston, USA Raymond Abrashkin & Jay Williams Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint
Midwich, Winshire John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos
Mill River, California Robert B. Parker A Catskill Eagle
Minas Tirith J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
Missing Mile, North Carolina Poppy Z. Brite Lost Souls
Monument, USA Robert Cormier The Chocolate War
Moonlight Bay, California Dean Koontz Fear Nothing
Mud Flats, Nebraska John Sladek The Müller-Fokker Effect
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Nagyfalu, Hungary János Arany Toldi
Narrowbourne, Outer Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life West Coker, Somerset.
Nessus Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer
Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
New Crobuzon China Miéville Perdido Street Station
Newford Charles de Lint Various works
New New York Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Joe Haldeman Worlds
Jean-Christophe Valtat The Mysteries of New Venice A fictional city, made of buildings from past world's fairs, and located near the North Pole, on Ellesmere Island.
Northtown, North Washington TBA Dead or Alive: Northtown series A fictional mysterious, sleepy, small town in the fictional county of Rose County in the fictional state of North Washtington.[citation needed] It is the main setting of the novel series.[citation needed]
Nwotsemaht Patrick Hamilton Nwotsemaht is the capital of Moribundia. "Thamestown" backwards.
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Olinger, Pennsylvania John Updike Various stories
Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs Various Tarzan novels Opar is a fictional lost city in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels.
Öreskoga, Sweden Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson Bert
Osgiliath J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings
Othomae Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Oxrun Station, Connecticut Charles L. Grant The Hour of the Oxrun Dead
Overcombe, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Sutton Poyntz, Dorset.
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Par Ys John Brunner The Traveller in Black
Personville, Montana Dashiell Hammett Red Harvest
Peyton Place Grace Metalious Peyton Place
Pico Mundo, California Dean Koontz Odd Thomas
Pine Cove, California Christopher Moore Practical Demonkeeping
W.S. Gilbert The Sorcerer
Pneuma Rupert Thomson Divided Kingdom
Poltowan, England Nicola K. Smith A Degree of Uncertainty
Port Bredy, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Bridport, Dorset.
Port Sherman, Oregon Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
Po'sham, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Portsham, Dorset.
Primordium Clive Barker Tortured Souls
Pseudopolis Terry Pratchett Discworld
, England Hugh Lofting Doctor Dolittle
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Quartershot, Upper Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Aldershot, Hampshire.
Quirm Terry Pratchett Discworld
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Rakava Ursula K. Le Guin Malafrena
Ramsdale, Mew Hampshire Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
W.S. Gilbert Ruddigore A fictional town in Cornwall, location of Ruddigore Castle.
Riseholme E.F. Benson Various novels
Rivendell J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings
River Heights Carolyn Keene The Secret of the Old Clock
R'lyeh H.P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu, first published in Weird Tales in 1928. According to Lovecraft's short story, R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the malevolent entity called Cthulhu.

The nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults. — H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1928)

Rummidge, England David Lodge Changing Places and others
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Sac Prairie August Derleth Various works
St. Mary Mead, England Agatha Christie Miss Marple series An earlier mention of St. Mary Mead exists in the Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train. However, that St. Mary Mead is said to be in Kent, while the St. Mary Mead mentioned in the Miss Marple stories, beginning with Murder at the Vicarage, is located in either the fictional county of Downshire, Radfordshire, or Middleshire, depending on the source used.
Sandbourne, Upper Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Bournemouth, Dorset.
San Juan Romero, Mexico Rita Maria Felix da Silva San Juan Romero Located somewhere in Mexico, this city that also gives the title the first short story in the series of stories starring "Sir James Winterwood". It is notorious for a terrible curse that plagues this small Mexican town.
San Narciso, California Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Santa Teresa, California Ross Macdonald The Moving Target A fictionalized version of Santa Barbara, California, created by Ross Macdonald in his mystery The Moving Target (1949).[1]
Selene Paul Féval, père La Ville Vampire
Shadows Fall Simon R. Green Shadows Fall
Shadyside, USA R.L. Stine The New Girl
Shalako, New Mexico Louis L'Amour Shalako
Shaston, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Sheepridge Terry Pratchett Discworld
Shelby, Alberta W.O. Mitchell The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon ' Shelby' is a small town in Alberta, serving as the backdrop of the story.
Sherton Abbas, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Sherborne, Dorset.
Shoyo, Arkansas Stephen King The Stand
Sidewinder, Colorado Stephen King The Shining
Sleepyside, New York Julie Campbell Tatham The Secret of the Mansion
The Raven A fictional county in Alabama, used to conceal true crime locations.
Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin ihp & various SCP Foundation Originally New Toronto, also known as Nexus-18. A rural town founded in Douglas County, Wisconsin as a logging settlement in 1887. Renamed following the 1890 disappearance of founder and storyteller Jackson Sloth and his family, said to have fallen in a sinkhole that no-one can find twice. The town is rich with folktales and paranormal activity, especially around holidays.
Smallbridge, Kent C.S. Forester The Commodore
Solentsea, Upper Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Southsea, Hampshire.
Solla Sollew Dr. Seuss I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Solla Sollew is a walled city in a faraway land, "somewhere beyond the horizon." It is highly-acclaimed, having been said that "troubles there are few" and that "maybe it's something like heaven."
Solymbria Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Soulberg PeppersGhost SCP Foundation Designated SCP-2200-3. A rural North American town inhabited by silver golems (SCP-2200-4) possessed by the souls of persons killed by an Iron Age sword and its wielders (SCP-2200-1 and SCP-2200-2 respectively). The souls of the inhabitants permanently leave their bodies if they go outside the 50 km² area of the town.
Spaceport Five Overcity Andy Lane Original Sin Spaceport Five Overcity is a huge floating city over 30th century Britain (or "the Undercity").
Sparks Jeanne DuPrau The People of Sparks
Sparta, Mississippi John Ball In the Heat of the Night
Spoon River Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology
Starvation Lake Bryan Gruley Starvation Lake Starvation Lake is a small town in the fictitious Pine County, Michigan. The town is based on real-life Bellaire, Michigan.[2] The lake the book is named after is in nearby Kalkaska County, and mentions its location in Northern Michigan.
Steklovks Mikhail Bulgakov The Fatal Eggs
Stepford, Connecticut Ira Levin The Stepford Wives
Sto Lat Sir Terry Pratchett Discworld
Stoneybrook, Connecticut Ann M. Martin The Baby-sitters Club
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Tacticum Terry Pratchett Discworld Tacticum is an abandoned fortress city in the after General Tacticus. The city was left by the inhabitants when the wind changed and it no longer rained.
Tanelorn Michael Moorcock The Quest for Tanelorn
Tannochbrae, Scotland A.J. Cronin Dr. Finlay of Tannochbrae
Tarbox, Massachusetts John Updike Couples
Tarxia Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Tar Valon Robert Jordan New Spring
Tashbaan C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia Tashbaan is the capital of Calormen, located on an island near the mouth of the River of Calormen. It is mentioned in several books, but appears only in The Horse and His Boy.
Templeton, New York James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale
Thermopolis Rupert Thomson Divided Kingdom
Thi, Winkie Country L. Frank Baum The Lost Princess of Oz
Thneedville Dr. Seuss The Lorax A walled city without trees. This was also seen in the 1972 TV special and 2012 computer-animated film adaptations.
Thrax Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer
Three Portlands Jacob Conwell & various SCP Foundation Officially the City of Three Portlands, also Free Port-01. An extradimensional city-state accessible via portals in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, and the Isle of Portland. Is one of the largest paranormal enclaves on Earth, with a population of at least 80,000.
Tilbury Town, USA Edwin Arlington Robinson Various poems
Tilling, Sussex E.F. Benson Miss Mapp
Tilling Green, Ledshire Patricia Wentworth
Tonebrough, Outer Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Taunton, Somerset.
Trantor Isaac Asimov Foundation series Capital of the Galactic Empire, at its height the city of Trantor covers the entire surface of its planet.
Trantridge, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Pentridge, Dorset.
Turnhill, Staffordshire Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns
Two Mills, Pennsylvania Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee Magee runs around and lives in a couple parts of this racially divided town.
Tylerton Frederik Pohl The Tunnel under the World
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Ulthar H.P. Lovecraft The Cats of Ulthar
Unthank Alasdair Gray
Utopia Thomas More Utopia (book) the 1516 book The book coined the term "Utopia", meaning an ideal city or civilization.
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Vermilion Sands J.G. Ballard Vermilion Sands collection A beach resort with futuristic art.
Village of Cream Puffs Carl Sandberg Rootabaga Stories
Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events Has many (and often ridiculous) rules, with a penalty of being burned at stake for breaking these rules, the most important of which is no harming crows.
Village of Liver-and-Onions Carl Sandberg Rootabaga Stories
Vindium Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Viriconium M. John Harrison The Pastel City (1971) Viriconium is a city/state which exists in the far future. Also known as Vriko and Uriconium.
Vlyvalle, New Jersey Dirk Wittenborn Fierce People Vlyvalle is a wealthy town in fictional rural Huntington County, New Jersey.
Vondervotteimittiss, Netherlands Edgar Allan Poe The Devil in the Belfry Humorously pronounced /ˈvʌndərˈvɒtaɪmɪtɪs/.
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Walkerville, USA Joanna Cole The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
Watermouth, England Malcolm Bradbury The History Man
Weatherbury, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Puddletown, Dorset.
Wellbridge, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Wool, Dorset.
Well-Built City Jeffrey Ford The Physiognomy
Wells, South Carolina John Ball In the Heat of the Night
Weydon-Priors, Upper Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Weyhill, Hampshire.
Whistle Stop, Alabama Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Whoville Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who!
Wilvercombe, England Dorothy L. Sayers Have His Carcase A small resort on the South West coast of England, where the murder in the novel takes place.
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life
Wintoncester, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Former capital of Wessex. Correlates to the real-life Winchester, Hampshire.
Winterfell George R.R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire
Worford, Worfordshire Tom Sharpe Blott on the Landscape
Wrottesley, England Howard Jacobson Coming from Behind "somewhere in the debased and deteriorating Midlands"[3]
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Xanadu Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment
Xylar Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
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Yian Robert W. Chambers The Maker of Moons A fictional city created by Robert W. Chambers, and also referred to by H. P. Lovecraft. In the city, a great river flows under a thousand bridges, it is always summer and the sound of silver bells fills the air. In a portion of The Maker of Moons it is said to lie "across seven oceans and the river which is longer than from the Earth to the Moon."
Yonwood Jeanne DuPrau The Prophet of Yonwood
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Zaira Italo Calvino Le città invisibili
Zenith, Winnemac Sinclair Lewis Babbitt
Zolon Lyon Sprague de Camp Novarian series A Novarian city-state.
Unnamed
town in the Po Valley, Italy Giovannino Guareschi The Little Town of Don Camillo series the small town where the action takes place

References[]

  1. ^ Priestman, Martin (2003). The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521008716.
  2. ^ Giest, Mary Ellen (October 24, 2011). "Bryan Gruley's Northern Michigan: {...} Gruley sets his dark novels in a fictional Northern Michigan town called Starvation Lake". Traverse City, Michigan: MyNorth Media (mynorth.com). Retrieved 2013-11-10.
  3. ^ Bradbury, Malcolm (1990). "Campus Fictions". In Bevan, David (ed.). University Fiction. Rodopi. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-90-5183-234-1. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
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