[UA] [UA]Scenario Help

[John C]

> > I'm working on a scenario, and I need a place to *set* the darned thing.
> >  Can anyone out there think of a location that would allow for the
>following?
> >
> >  A small American town, with a population of something under 800 people
>(the
> >  smaller the better, but I'm not sure what the lower limit is for a 
>viable
> >  modern town), that can be cut off from the outside world with a minimal
> >  amount of difficulty.  I need to locate it in a wooded area, as dense 
>as
> >  possible.
> >
> >  I need to think of a reason for such a town to exist, something that 
>would
> >  actually provide employment for the townsfolk.  A lumber mill seems 
>like
>the
> >
> >  most obvious option, but I don't know if that would fit with such a 
>small
> >  town.
> >
> >  Any ideas?
> >
>
>
>Did you ever read The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein?  It has a very small town
>totally cut off from the world, meanwhile being only a few miles from New
>York (or was it New Jersey?).  Pick it up on eBay or at some used bookstore
>if you can.  It's great HPL-style horror.  (You can get it at your 
>commercial
>bookstore in an incredibly slimmed-down version called The Events at Poroth
>Farm, which is included in a horror story antholgy called "A Century of
>Horror:  1970-1979").

Well, damn.  I just re-read _Dark Gods_, but I'd forgotten about _The 
Ceremonies_.  I have at least one copy, maybe two; I'll have to dig it out.  
Thanks, that wouldn't have occured to me.

"Children of the Kingdon" is still my favorite, though.

John Crimmins                     john1x at hotmail.com
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   "We're not at home to Mr. Reasonable, sergeant."
   "I do not hear him knockin', sir."
    --Terry Pratchett, _The Fifth Elephant_

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