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This is going to be very hard...
1-H.P Lovecraft's East Coast - It will scare the shit out of you and it's perfect like that. Full of small towns, of cabins in the woods, of people that want to be left alone with their demons and hauntings. Who are real. Like, physically there, in their backyard. And their will haunt you too.
2-Arthur C. Clarke's Milky Way - It is the equivalent of floating right into a nightmare, or your equivalent for hell. The scenes in 2010 where they look down on Jupiter's moon Io and reveals the unspeakable, horrific landscape is of a terrifying beauty.
3-Heath Lowrance's Cuba Landing - What a sick and tormented little place that is. You don't want to go to Cuba Landing and yet you can't stop reading about it. Small, southern towns have never been so bleak and dangerous. A great, yet disturbing creation.
4-Dennis Lehane's Dorchester - A city (or should I say a district?) that clammed up. Turned on itself. No cops can and will ever win there. That's why Dorchester needs Patrick Kenzie, Bubba Rogowitz and all those psychos. It's a labyrinth with its own laws and logic.
5-Anthony Neil Smith's Minnesota - If no one can hear you scream in space, no one can either in Smith's deserted fields. All they are is a place where people get executed and buried. If you get buried in Minnesota, there's a good chance that nobody's looking for you. And a good chance you've been killed by Billy Lafitte.
6-Don DeLillo's College Town - A weird and alienating world that doesn't spin at the same speed that Jack Gladney does. So all there is to him is a fast moving blur, that makes him feel isolated. Maybe the most complex and well described world on this list. Had to be this way to work.
7-Haruki Murakami's Impossible, Inescapable Back Alley - I don't know anything that comes even close of resembling that. I guess it's a little like Lewis Carroll's wonderland, but since it's populated with humans, there is this weird feeling that you're nowhere. Like in a very nice, flowery purgatory.
8-James Ellroy's Los Angeles - The city where dreams go to die. Where you find innocence crashed against the bar, drunk and confused. In Ellroy's city of angels, you can't go see the cops. They will drive you back to the very criminals you're running away from. Or do even worse.
9-F. Scott Fitzgerald's Lush Life - In The Great Gatsby in particular, where houses are larger than the ones you dreamed about and nothing is what is seems. Success and money have never felt so lonely and miserable than in Fitzgerald's fiction.
10-Stephen King's Maine -There is not much you can say about Maine in real life. There's lobster perhaps? But in Stephen King's fiction, it's filled with crazy violent people and all kind of creatures that will make you regret being born. All tightly wrapped inside fun-loving small communities.