Find similar books by
Combine common axes
These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for His Name was Death.
Motifs labels used: mosquitoes, buzzing, flute, dictionary, jungle, blood, pelts, hut, disease, animals, language as code, religious imagery, council, fever, hammock
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
A post-apocalyptic anthology gathering 30 varied stories about survival, collapse, plague, and what remains after the end.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: water · plague · virus · ruins · desert · animals · music · advertising · angels · elephants · postman · bees · dead bodies · dark humor
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1817
After a worldwide plague, one immune survivor watches civilization fade and a new society slowly emerge.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: hammer · snakebite · plague · canned food · books · library · fire · electricity · roads · ruins · nature imagery · animal imagery · taboo · ritual · calendar naming · deserted infrastructure
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1866
A rabies outbreak at Heathrow traps travelers and staff in a lethal quarantine as fear turns people against each other.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: rabies · virus · quarantine · airport · invasion · animals · dogs · bites · blood · cage · lab · biblical references · mythic pattern · catastrophe
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1902
An anthropologist visits a quarantined planet of women, where a deadly virus, culture, and identity are all in flux.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: virus · winter · ice · planetary travel · flora and fauna · anthropology · ritual · storytelling · sickness · nature imagery · blood and body · home and land · vaccination · genetic change
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1929
After a revolution, a reluctant figurehead and his bodyguard race to stop a mysterious illness in a fractured new society.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: disease · veins · blood · sickness · technology · network · bodyguard · symbols · propaganda · confession · zombie-like illness · death
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1951
A deaf young woman and a speech tutor are drawn into a secret magical college as an ancient winter-born enemy awakens.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: music · sound · voice · speech · enunciation · words · songs · winter · ice · plague · artifacts · greenhouse · animals as magic · libraries
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1953
A time-shifting mystery links malaria research, colonial India, and a secretive theory of how knowledge is found.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: mosquitoes · malaria · chromosomes · ghost trains · ID card · fever · delirium · transmission · clues · secrets · silence · cult · riddles
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1955
A man split between two realities must race to save both worlds from catastrophe, evil, and a fate tied to his dreams.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: dreams · sleep · blood · water · lake · disease · virus · colors · circle · forest · symbolic colors · emblem · medallion · resurrection
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1963
In a drowned, capitalist future, a bullied mosquito-human searches for identity while pandemics become profit.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: mosquitoes · dengue · blood · viruses · pandemics · ice · melting ice · flooding · maps · video games · virtual reality · stocks · commodities · stones · primordial knowledge · eggs · mutations · body horror · sheepies · cold
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1969
A cross-country thriller where a detective and a private eye uncover a terrifying link between crimes, missing people, and insects.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: insects · arachnids · mandibles · crawling · bodies · disease · sect/secte wordplay · music
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1974
A parasite-doctor in a frozen chateau investigates a death and encounters a rival infection threatening body and mind.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: parasites · bodies · hive mind · medical procedures · autopsy · cold · snow · castle · mines · eyeballs · blood · gore · fungal imagery · worms
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1975
A family’s cabin getaway turns deadly when a long-buried legend and a monstrous assailant close in.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: mosquito · insect · legend · folklore · woods · cabin · darkness · bones · blood · gore · flashback · white hair
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1992
