Maybe what I'm about to describe is fundamentally a Gothic trope in origins. Does anyone have any recommendations where the protagonist returns to a home base frequently, and that home base is a mysterious home-away-from-home like a hotel, castle, library, monastery, etc.?
If you've seen the first two seasons of the TV show "Twin Peaks," I'm looking for something akin to how the Great Northern Hotel functions in that show as a base of operations for Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan). There is a real sense of place to the Great Northern, with the sounds of the other occupants coming through the walls, and strange visitors appearing in the night, and the show's fundamental sense of mystery and darkness still present but [at a somewhat safe remove (or at least apparently safe), like a thunder storm discerned from one's bedroom. A place for coffee, and mystery, and sleep, and pondering one's dreams/nightmares…
EDIT: I'm not necessarily talking about the eccentric small-town setting of the show, but much more specifically the Great Northern Hotel in the first two seasons of the show.
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