It is significant that the nightmare books of our age have not been about new Draculas and Frankensteins but about what may be termed dystopias inverted utopias, in which an imagined megalithic government brings human life to an exquisite pitch of misery.
Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.