The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is a very common Cthulhu Mythos setting, for both real-world and invented locations. Essex County, the northeastern corner of the state, forms the heart of Lovecraft Country.
Locations[]
The Massachusetts towns and villages invented by H. P. Lovecraft for his fiction include:
Other real-world Massachusetts locations mentioned in Lovecraft's fiction include Boston, Salem, Newburyport, and Cambridge. Bolton is the name of an actual town in Massachusetts that Lovecraft seems to place in a different location.