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The "cold desert plateau" of Leng is a place mentioned several times in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft gave different locations for it in different stories, because it is on the borderlands of our reality and the Dreamlands.
The Plateau of Leng is first described in "The Hound" (1922) as being located in Central Asia, where it is inhabited by a corpse-eating cult.
In The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927), the Plateau of Leng is located in the north of the Dreamlands, and inhabited by The High Priest Not To Be Described, who dwells alone in a prehistoric monastery.
In At the Mountains of Madness (1931), an expedition from Miskatonic University explores a plateau in Antarctica, on which they discover an ancient and apparently-abandoned city built by the Elder Things. One member of the expedition, who has encountered references to the Plateau of Leng in ancient texts, forms the hypothesis that the plateau they are exploring is Leng.
In Stephen King's novel Needful Things, some items are said to be fabricated "on the plateau of Leng" - though no other explanations are given. The novel also contains other references to Lovecraft's work.
The word "leng" (冷) is also "cold" in Mandarin and Hokkien. It is unknown whether Lovecraft knew this when he chose the name for his plateau.