Lovecraft, Massachusetts
The seaside town that keeps the Lockes' keys.
Lovecraft, Massachusetts is the town where most of Locke & Key takes place. The town is based on Nahant, Massachusetts, and its Drowning Cave is based on the local Swallow Cave; the Netflix adaptation changes the town's name to Matheson.
Quick Facts
- Setting of
- Locke & Key (comics)
- Netflix name
- Matheson, Massachusetts
- Locations
- Keyhouse Manor, Drowning Cave, Lovecraft Academy
- Namesake
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Referenced in
- Joe Hill's NOS4A2 ('Lovecraft Keyhole')
Facts from the source article.
Background
The town's locations include Keyhouse Manor, the Drowning Cave and Lovecraft Academy. It shares its name with H. P. Lovecraft, the horror novelist of the Cthulhu Mythos, and is referenced in Joe Hill's novel NOS4A2 and its AMC adaptation, where the map of Charles Manx's 'United Inscapes of America' shows a town called 'Lovecraft Keyhole' marked by a giant keyhole.
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Elsewhere in Locke and Key
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