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* CozyMystery series ''SisterBonifaceMysteries'' is set in a village called Great Slaughter. It lives up to its name.

** ''And'' there's Foreboding Widow's Peak.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E5TreehouseOfHorrorIII Treehouse of Horror III]]", we get this conversation.

'''Troy:''' Don't let the name throw you, Jimmy. It's not really a floor, it's more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice through so it can be collected and exported.
** "I should have got off at Crackton..."

** A mild example is Spittle County, "Birthplace of the Loogie" and home to various unpleasant rural stereotypes.

** When Dr. Colossus is released in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part 2)]]":

** Quiet Rest in Season 6's "Forgotten People" may seem like a picturesque nursing home, but [[WouldHarmASenior many of its patients there have been dying at an alarming rate]], because little do the families know, it is actually a secret illegal testing facility where its corrupt doctors and ex-con orderlies are plotting to put variations of an outlawed Alzheimer's drug on the market, and their experiments resulted in the deaths of nine patients, and anyone who'd try to escape or tell an outside source what's really going on would be put to death to keep them quiet. When this happens to a friend of Trivette's, C.D. is sent in undercover to uncover evidence while Walker, Trivette and Alex have the nine patients exhumed to perform autopsies to find traces of the illegal drug and secure a search warrant.

** Quiet Rest in Season 6's "Forgotten People" may seem like a picturesque nursing home, but [[WouldHarmASenior many of its patients there have been dying at an alarming rate]], because little do the families know, it is actually a secret illegal testing facility where its corrupt doctors and ex-con orderlies are plotting to put variations of an outlawed Alzheimer's drug on the market, and their experiments resulted in the deaths of nine patients, and anyone who'd try to escape would be put to death to keep them quiet.

** Season 5's "Devil's Turf" has Devil's Gym, which is owned and operated by the VillainOfTheWeek, Mick Stanley, and serves as the source of a powerful drug killing high school athletes. One student is barely talked out of ever going there again after realizing the dirty business they do and was nearly murdered along with his girlfriend until Walker, Trivette and the school janitor[[note]]whose younger brother is a Texas Ranger sent in undercover as a student, only to be badly beaten by Mick and his goons when caught snooping on the property, but he eventually recovers after they are arrested[[/note]] intervened.

** Season 5's "Devil's Turf" has Devil's Gym, which is owned and operated by the VillainOfTheWeek, Mick Stanley, and serves as the source of a powerful drug killing high school athletes. One student is barely talked out of ever going there again after realizing the dirty business they do and was nearly murdered along with his girlfriend until Walker, Trivette and the school janitor (whose younger brother, a Texas Ranger sent in undercover as a student) intervened.

** Quiet Rest in Season 6's "Forgotten People" may seem like a picturesque nursing home, but little do the families of its patients know, it is actually a secret illegal testing facility where its corrupt doctors and ex-con orderlies are plotting to put variations of an outlawed Alzheimer's drug on the market, and their experiments resulted in the deaths of nine patients, and anyone who'd try to escape would be put to death to keep them quiet.

** Quiet Rest in Season 6's "Forgotten People" may seem like a picturesque nursing home, but little do the families of its patients know, it is actually a secret illegal testing facility where its corrupt doctors and ex-con orderlies are plotting to put variations of an outlawed Alzheimer's drug on the market, and their experiments resulted in the deaths of 10 patients.

** Quiet Rest in Season 6's "Forgotten People" may seem like a picturesque nursing home, but little do the families of its patients know, it is actually a secret illegal testing facility where its corrupt doctors and ex-con orderlies are plotting to put variations of an outlawed Alzheimer's drug on the market.

* Literature/DocSavage: ''Fear Cay'' takes place largely on the eponymous island. As well as housing a FountainOfYouth, here is also a terror on the island that can turn a man into a skeleton in minutes.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Dresden's Chicago has "Undertown," where you can find awful goblins, ghouls, and other, less savory creatures. Even humans....

* In ''Paradyzja'' by Creator/JanuszZajdel, the titular space station orbits a planet named Tartar (Tartarus). It was named that ''before'' it was deemed a [[EverythingTryingToKillYou place where the very weather is trying to kill you]], though.

* The Gallery of the Dead from ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts Covenant''. Located beneath Moscow, the place is a hybrid between catacombs, prison cells, and a storm sewer.

* Sufferton from ''Film/{{Seed}}''.

* In ''VideoGame/MySimsKingdom'', when you first go to Spookane, Buddy is scared of going there, but Lyndsay is sure it's just a name... ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' has a town called Spookane as well.

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' ups the ante with The World That Never Was, which itself has subsections like The Hall of Empty Melodies, Brink of Despair, and the Altar of Naught.

** The Malys[[note]]pronounced "malice"[[/note]] Estate once belonged to the Malys clan -- paranoid, infamous nobles who are put to the sword by Eostia's rulers. It is rumoured to be haunted by the evil spirits of the destroyed clan. At present, Kyril and his company head towards the estate in hopes of hunting down EvilSorcerer Shamuhaza, only to be greeted by [[MixAndMatchCritters people fused with insects and other creepy crawlies]], which are not any better than ghosts. The estate turns out to be a dimension-expanding, weirdness-inducing EldritchLocation.

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': One location in [[{{Mordor}} Garan]] is named the Dead Marshes. Goes on to show that SwampsAreEvil.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Mount Doom.]]
** {{Mordor}} itself, as it's suggestive of the Latin ''mors'', which means "death," and is a bit too close to the related word "murder" for comfort. In-story, the name still qualifies: it means "Black Country", in reference to its wasted state and perpetual shadow.[[note]]Tolkien knew the industrial Midlands of Britain -- which are not called "The Black Country" for nothing. His loathing for what heavy industry can do to a landscape is a thread running right through the books: he specifically associates the powers of darkness with soul-less progress and industrialisation.[[/note]]It's more literal than that: Tolkien's academic specialty was Old English, and he had a fondness for just lifting parts of its vocabulary for his legendarium -- "Ent" means giant, for instance, and "Orthanc" is Old English for "craft". "Mordor" quite literally means Murder.
** The northwest corner of Mordor is the Plateau of Gorgoroth, which is a compound of Sindarin ''gor'' ("fear") and ''gor-oth'' ("great fear," "horror"), indicating that it's ''extra''-horrible. Even untranslated, it doesn't have the sound of a nice vacation spot.
** Most of the foregoing also applies to Moria (the Black Chasm), which the Dwarves call by a different name (''Khazad-Dûm'', "the Dwarf-delving").
** Other places with ominous Quenya or Sindarin names include Dol Guldur (the hill of dark magic) and Minas Morgul (the tower of black magic).
** The Dead Marshes.
** Also Cirith Ungol and assorted places. Frodo and Sam may be excused, because many location names are only told to the reader and not the protagonists. But it still adds some amusement to the chapter when you translate the elven location names -- and realize that they are trying to reach the "''Pass of the Huge Evil Monster Spider''", climb the "''Stairs to the Pass of the Huge Evil Monster Spider''" and finally enter the "''Cave of the Huge Evil Monster Spider''" -- and then slowly begin to wonder if that pass is ''really'' as unguarded as they thought... Especially since it is established that Frodo, at least, speaks reasonably good Sindarin.
** As ''The New Yorker'' noted in its review of TheMovie of ''The Two Towers'', such a name definitely makes things easier when asking for directions.

* Inverted in children's Lord of the Rings parody ''Literature/{{Muddle Earth|Stewart}}'', with "Harmless Hill".

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' by Creator/JRRTolkien also has a variety of locations which can be translated variously as the Grinding Ice, the Gasping Dust, the [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses Hill of Slain]], the [[EldritchLocation Mountains of Horror]][[note]]Ered Gorgoroth, just like the Plateau of Gorgoroth in ''The Lord of the Rings''.[[/note]], and the [[GardenOfEvil Valley of Dreadful Death]].

* Camp Wannaweep in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.

* ''Film/{{Stalker}}'' has a dark and scary tunnel nicknamed The Meat Grinder. We're never told how it [[NothingIsScarier got this nickname]], which makes the sequence where [[ButtMonkey Writer]] creeps through it quite terrifying.

* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' Cyclopean Haunt. A nearly impassable labyrinth full of scary monsters and with a hell of a final boss in the end.

** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Devil%27s_Throat Devil's Throat]]. (Which is based off a real place in the Mojave desert!)
*** The ''Lonesome Road'' [=DLC=] has a location in the Divide called "Cave of the Abaddon". Abaddon is the name of an angel in the Bible associated with destruction and locust plagues.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' has the Drowning Woods. Decades ago, it was populated by evil Ghost-type Pokémon who took pleasure in terrifying and even ''killing'' any unfortunate traveler that passed through their domain. Elite Four Agatha, [[spoiler: whose younger brother was killed in there,]] took it upon herself to catch all of them to clear the forest and make sure they wouldn't hurt anybody.

* Subverted - at least at first - with the Bog of Eternal Stench in ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' Sarah at first doubts it's as bad as Hoggle claims asking if all it does is smell, although he tells her, [[TakeOurWordForIt "Believe me, that's enough!"]] (Of course, that's ''not'' all it does. Not only does it have an unearthly stench, it curses whoever touches its waters with the same stench, which never goes away. And while the viewers ''do'' have to take his word for it, poor Sarah finds out just how vile it smells for herself when she sees the place firsthand.)

** "Seek you the Bridge of Death!"
** Where, if you get a question wrong, "you are cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril."

* In ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'', Shaggy and Scooby are unwilling to visit [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Spooky Island]]. In fact, they have a whole list of "forbidden" place names - including "scary", "haunted", "forbidden" or "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick hydroclonic]]".

* A whole bunch of ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' adventures are set in scary, ominous-sounding locations, including Darkwood Forest from ''Literature/TheForestOfDoom'', Freezeblood Mountains from ''Literature/SiegeOfSardath'', the Inn of the Ghostly Visitors from ''Literature/SpectralStalkers'' (and yes, it's an InnOfNoReturn - the owner ''will'' drug you and sell you as food to goblins), the Desert of Skulls from ''Literature/TempleOfTerror'', Nightshriek Jungle from ''Literature/BattlebladeWarrior'', Rivers of the Dead from ''Literature/SeasOfBlood'', Isle of Despair from ''Literature/StealerOfSouls'' (where you confront Mordraneth, the titular soul-stealing sorceror), among others.

** {{Mordor}} itself, as it's suggestive of the Latin "mors", which means ''death'', and is a bit too close to the related word "murder" for comfort. In-story, the name still qualifies: it means "Black Country", in reference to its wasted state and perpetual shadow. [[note]]Tolkien knew the industrial Midlands of Britain - which are not called "The Black Country" for nothing. His loathing for what heavy industry can do to a landscape is a thread running right through the books: he specifically associates the powers of darkness with soul-less progress and industrialisation.[[/note]] It's more literal than that: Tolkien's academic specialty was Old English, and he had a fondness for just lifting parts of its vocabulary for his legendarium -- "Ent" means giant, for instance, and "Orthanc" is Old English for "craft". "Mordor" quite literally means Murder.

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' by Creator/JRRTolkien also has a variety of locations which can be translated variously as the Grinding Ice, the Gasping Dust, the [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses Hill of Slain]], the [[EldritchLocation Mountains of Horror]], and the [[GardenOfEvil Valley of Dreadful Death]].

* Music/{{Mothy}}'s series the ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'', has country names based on the names of demons- Levianta, Elphegort, Lucifenia, and so on... and when some of them decide to create a single state, they name it... United States of Evillious.

** The ludicrousness of these names was parodied by a [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/20/ certain]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip which posited that beneath the Shadowdark is the "Darkbad" -- and past that, one encounters "Shadow Shadow Bo Badow," "Double Hell," and finally "Scarytown". [[spoiler: Which isn't so bad, depending on when you go.]]

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'': Abyssea is a post-apocalyptic parallel universe of Vana'diel. [[spoiler: Although it turns out that it's more like Vana'diel is the alternate version of Abyssea.]]

** The most recurring world in the series (counting cutscene appearances) is called Hollow Bastion. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Merlin in ''II'' when he asks how the place got its name, [[spoiler: right before Sora and co. find out the world's real name: Radiant Garden. Hollow Bastion is just the name of the castle]].

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' has Crumbleden of the Ruined Kingdom. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's just as dilapidated as it sounds and more]]. [[spoiler: You also have to deal with a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant]] [[ShockAndAwe lightning-breathing]] ([[NonStandardCharacterDesign and over-realistic]]) [[DragonsAreDemonic dragon]] there to clear a path to Bowser's Castle.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', Rayla asks Callum and Ezra to please tell her the Cursed Caldera is named after famous explorer Sir Phineas Cursed. It's not, the name is because it's full of monsters. [[spoiler: Subverted in that the monsters are illusionary.]]

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': [[{{Egopolis}} Doomstadt]], capital city of Latveria. Characters/DoctorDoom named several other towns in Latveria after himself as well.

* ''Literature/{{Croak}}'': Being inhabited entirely by {{Grim Reaper}}s, the town is naturally named after a synonym for dying. Its counterpart on the west coast is called [=DeMyse=] and the capital city in the center of the country is called the Necropolis.