Dream Log: Black Magic and Evil Towns

I dreamed of reading a story, an old fairytale. It was a Polish story and the hero comes upon two towns that have good reputation, but it turns out the reputation (which are built up very tall like medieval/victorian skyscrapers) is false as are the towns and each had just one evil sorcerer type living in it. And I remember that they were Jewish and that made me wonder if this story was anti-Semitic. I cannot remember their names now, they they started with H and T and each had made his town a variation upon the other's name.

If I read the rest of the story I don't remember it now, but apparently I got busy with a roleplaying game night using a supplement published by John Fiala. I was in a strange house and quite a few Dasfans were there including the author. And we talked writing shop for a while and I congratulated him on his black magic game supplement. Then, perhaps in the course of playing the game, my character got a hold of a book of evil magic that he proceeded to keep in an iron safe bound with lead despite what the other characters wanted. And the whole dream began to dissolve into random thoughts as I woke up.