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Campbell Country is horror that uses Britain as a setting. Rural areas are the most common, but urban settings (especially in decrepit neglected neighbourhoods and/or in gothic depictions of Victorian London) aren't unheard of. There is a decent amount of precedent for this, and for good reason. The rain, fog, and lonely moors all give the setting a nice creepy feel. England is a relatively small country with a long sense of retained history owing to its isolation as a group of islands. It's therefore easy to believe that an English village was the site of some dreadful secret dating back to medieval, Roman or pagan times. As a result, small European and British settings are often used for simpler horror stories, such as Haunted House tales, as there are so many old houses, castles and abbeys around the place. Named for a suggestion to British writer Ramsey Campbell by American writer August Derleth regarding the logistical limits of Lovecraft Country: to create your own equivalent in a place you know, either in your home country or a place you have visited. Rural variants of this trope tend to overlap with Hillbilly Horrors. For similar settings in the Deep South, The Wild West, and Ruritania, see respectively Southern Gothic, Weird West/Sinister Southwest, and Ãœberwald. Not to be confused with Campbell County, of which the US has five. Also not to be confused with Bruce Campbell Country,note The cabin from The Evil Dead (1981) was located in Hamblen County, Tennessee, a couple counties over from that state's Campbell County. which has more comedy and a higher probability of survival due to, well, Bruce Campbell. |
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The Wicker Man (1973) had an interesting way of giving its setting physical isolation - it was set on the (fictional) remote Scottish island of Summerisle. The story involves a policeman trying to investigate the case of a missing child and uncovering a pagan cult that's active on the island. | |
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The Lair of the White Worm: D'Ampton is a small village in England that houses a giant dragon and reptilian vampire worshippers. | |
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Quite a few episodes The Last Door has you exploring large, rundown estates around the English and Scottish countryside. There is even an episode set in Victorian London, taking full advantage of stuff like the city's labyrinthine slum and foggy streets to build an effectively creepy atmosphere. | |
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The Lodgers: The setting is an isolated, crumbling family estate adjacent to a rural Irish town. | |
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As yet another werewolf-related example, the English village of Blackmoor from The Wolfman (2010) definitely fits this trope, and it even comes complete with scary woods! | |
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Hunter: The Parenting is an Old World of Darkness story that follows a family of monster-hunters operating in the rural county of Norfolk. | |
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The Monster Club features a little village just off the main road in pleasant English countryside, which has been ruled by ghouls since Puritan times. | |
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The Torchwood episode "Countrycide" involves the strange disappearances near a rural town in Wales, contrasting with the usual Aliens in Cardiff stories. | |
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Britsune Garden Series: Downplayed in the first novel, Britsune Garden. Shadonis are spooky horned vulpine Youkai who are the main antagonists. They infiltrate the gardens of Buckingham Palace and possessed some Igiriko individuals. It's up to the royal family and the remaining Igiriko to restore the garden to its former glory and seal the Shadoni race away. |
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Men is set in rural England, in a village where something strange is clearly going on, with writer/director Alex Garland stating that a big focus of the film is "the horror of rural England. It's certain kinds of churches, certain kinds of forest – the shadows within dark green." | |
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Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Voldemort's family are portrayed as horribly inbred as a consequence of being such an ancient family. The Isle of Drear off the northern tip of Scotland, where the deadly monsters called Quintapeds are contained. |
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An American Werewolf in London: The protagonist gets attacked by a werewolf and infected with lycanthropy while backpacking through the Yorkshire moors with his friend, who dies during the attack and who subsequently begins showing up as a Spirit Advisor. Before the monster shows up, the heroes visit a rural village where the locals give ominous warnings to stay on the road and beware the full moon. Bonus points for the iconic pub called the Slaughtered Lamb. | |
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"The Rats in the Walls": A man travels to his family's ancestral English home, which has a long history of spooky events dating back to ancient times. | |
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The Lakes is set in a claustrophobically close rural community in a remote part of England (Cumbria) where the psychological tension is down to everybody knowing everybody else's dark secrets - or thinking that they do. | |
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Die, Monster, Die!: The setting is Arkham, but an Arkham set in England rather than in the USA. The town is plagued by problems caused by a radioactive meteorite. | |
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The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure is set in the fictional East Anglian village of Saxton. | |
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Shadows Over Baker Street is a collection of short stories by different authors (for example, A Study in Emerald by the aforementioned Gaiman), about Sherlock Holmes investigating various Lovecraftian mysteries. | |
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Most of The Graveyard Book isn't that eldritch: the graveyard's ghosts provide a friendly community for young Bod Owens, and the villains are an Ancient Conspiracy of living humans. The real Lovecraftian/Campbellian horror comes when Bod visits the oldest grave, guarded by an illusory figure covered in blue tattoos and an unseen Eldritch Abomination that awaits the return of the tomb's original owner. Ghouls and night-gaunts (both of which appear in Lovecraft's stories) also show up at one point, but the ghouls are played for laughs and the night-gaunts are surprisingly friendly. | |
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Wylding Hall takes place at an isolated, ancient mansion in a beautiful but creepy patch of English countryside. | |
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Dog Soldiers: A squad of British soldiers battle werewolves while training in the Scottish Highlands. | |
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Lower Tadfield in Good Omens subverts this along with Town with a Dark Secret. It's home to The Antichrist, who's also a Reality Warper. But since this kid was raised as a normal boy and doesn't initially even realise the extent of his power, he's been unconsciously "warping" the town into an idyllic English village. Some characters are unsettled by just how unnaturally picture-perfect Lower Tadfield is, but The Antichrist's goal isn't To Create a Playground for Evil, but rather to create a playground for himself and his chums. | |
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Stonehearst Asylum: The titular asylum is a creepy place out in the English countryside far from anywhere else with many dark and unsettling secrets. | |
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Dark Fall: The Journal uses the fictional West Country village of Dowerton as the site of supernatural disappearances dating back centuries. | |
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The Stone Tape (1972) is set in an English castle that only dates from the 19th century, but it turns out the foundations are over a thousand years old. And there are noises said to be caused by "rats in the walls" only it doesn't have any rats. | |
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Darkplace Hospital in Garth Marenghis Darkplace is an Affectionate Parody of this setting. | |
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Barrow Hill is set in a spooky Cornwall full of creepy ruins and folklore. | |
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Carnacki the Ghost-Finder's titular ghost-finding adventures happen all around Great Britain and Ireland, and he's based in Chelsea, London. | |
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Captain Clegg, like its literary source material, is a Gothic crime thriller about a gang of smugglers and ex-pirates, operating in 1790s Kent, in southeastern England, and the supposedly-haunted marshland surrounding the town. | |
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The Laundry Files: The English lost city of Dunwich is not lost at all, but rather the training ground for the Laundry, a secret organization that prevents "reality incursions." Apparently someone in the Laundry noticed the very odd census reports, and the citizens were relocated and the town erased off the maps. The only way to get there is with a specially-programmed GPS unit and a key for the appropriate wards. Dunwich is also slowly sinking into the water. | |
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In Warhammer: The Bretonnian province of Mousillon is a giant poison swamp where the main industry is frog and snail catching, the populace are largely still recovering from a plague outbreak and far from the friendliest people in the Old World, every third house is empty and even the ones that aren't are rotten and dilapidated, grave-robbing is pretty much the local past-time (though sometimes the dead just help themselves out of their graves), the last Duke was murderously insane and very possibly not even human, his petty lord descendants all wear black armour and never remove their visors for some reason, and no-one in the rest of Bretonnia has any clue what the hell is wrong with the place. In the Empire, Ostland is a northern province dominated by the Forest of Shadows. Villages are few and far between, and filled with grim, unfriendly people who keep strange local customs and a fondness for double-barrelled firearms and strong alcohol. When they're not bearing the brunt of Chaos incursions, they're dealing with beastmen, forest goblins and ghouls. |
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Doctor Who: In "The Dæmons", the Doctor and UNIT investigate strange goings-on in the quaintly named village of Devil's End, where devil-worshipping villagers led by an evil vicar are attempting to awaken an ancient evil that lies buried beneath the village church, while being opposed by a white witch who is considered the town nutter. While given a (slight) sci-fi bent, all of these elements could have been lifted out of a Hammer Horror film of the period. "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood" presents the dreary Welsh hamlet of Cwmtaff, apparently on loan from Torchwood, complete with mists and an old church, where the graves are apparently eating people. |
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The League of Gentlemen is set in Royston Vasey, in Northern England. It's... odd. Initially a comedy, the sense that the town is just a mask for insanity, evil and genuinely disturbing horror grows as the series progresses. | |
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John Constantine usually operates out of London, but he's been known to take a break from the unrelenting horrors of the city and relax with the unrelenting horrors of the countryside. | |
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Several of modules of Lamentations of the Flame Princess take place in a fantasy equivalent of Campbell Country, the remote town of Pembrooktonshire. | |
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, which is set in the small village of Bewley on the sparsely populated English moors at some point during the Victorian times, uses the rural setting, creepy folklore, and the distrust of the local community towards an outsider from the city to create a generally eerie, oppressive, and paranoid atmosphere. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Voldemort's family are portrayed as horribly inbred as a consequence of being such an ancient family. | |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is largely set in a grim, dismal little village on the brooding Devonshire moors, a place far from modern civilization where communication with the outside world is difficult, neighbours are remote, the ground under your feet is treacherous and may suddenly become a thick bog that could swallow you alive, and where any number of ancient supernatural horrors may be lurking in the long, dark night and the thick, impenetrable fog that cloaks the land, while the local landed gentry, the Baskerville family, are the subjects of an ancestral curse dating back to a mid-17th Century ghost story. Ultimately subverted, however, since — this being a Sherlock Holmes story, after all — the true power behind the events of the story turns out to ultimately have a mundane, down-to-earth solution, and the Baskerville curse ultimately just turns out to be a piece of colourful folklore. | |
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