Hey, we've got at least one British Columbian here, don't we? Here's a challenge: name a remote, weird, vaguely sinister town somewhere in the province. The kind of place where, if you heard tell that there was a Wicker Man cult or a colony of Deep One hybrids or something similarly insane lurking in the shrubberies, it wouldn't surprise you in the least. Arkham-of-the-West, that kind of vibe.

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

...Vancouver?

Sorry, sorry. That was cheap X-Files joke.

Not being Canadian, a quick scan of the map shows a lot of deserted towns and coves and lakes that might fit the bill. But a lot of them are native reserves, and the one might not like that connotation.

So...instead, maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserters_Peak and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserters_Canyon?

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We had a polygamous Mormon cult once, but I can't remember the name of the place. Aside from that, it's all ghost towns: sad and creepy, but not really sinister in the "lurking insanity" way. Closest I can think of is Cumberland's Chinatown and Japan-towns (and other similar places), where the residents were so poorly treated that I wouldn't be too surprised at their having left restless ghosts. Or Bevan: once important enough to define the local area, now utterly abandoned and mostly forgotten. Or the drowned towns of the Arrow Lakes.

EDIT: I was thinking of the Village of Belcarra, the smallest member of the Vancouver Regional District, which prompted me to look up a list of BC municipalities. There's a place named Warfield, which makes me wonder what eschatological visions its founders had. Also Zeballos, which in addition to a name that wouldn't be out-of-place in Lovecraft's writing has a population of 126 as of the 2021 census: small enough that the entire place could be in on a conspiracy.

I think I may have found what I'm looking for.

--G.
take that, U2
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Ooh, yeah, smelter fallout would be good for an eldrich vibe.

No land links to the rest of BC. Hydroelectric damn. Continual assault by forest fires. Spanish Flu epidemic. Acid rain.

I think you've got a winner.