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Hideaki Sena

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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for Parasite Eve. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Tone labels used: disturbing, queasy, uneasy, horrific, gross, clinical, cold, psychological, tense, slow-building

Premise labels used: mitochondrial consciousness, organ transplant horror, cellular evolution, scientific horror, grief-driven experiment, host-parasite conflict, human evolution threat, body takeover

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Leech

Hiron Ennes · 2022

A parasite-doctor in a frozen chateau investigates a death and encounters a rival infection threatening body and mind.

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Tone labels: eerie · bleak · creepy · macabre · oppressive · claustrophobic · dark · unsettling · foreboding · gross · morbid · anxious · atmospheric · chilling

Premise labels: isolated manor mystery · body-swapping · parasitic infection · hive mind · medical investigation · competitor parasite · locked-house tension · identity crisis · autonomy struggle · body horror

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Distance: 0.1600

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Symbiote

Michael Nayak · 2025 · Ice Plague Wars

At a South Pole research base, a cold-triggered parasite spreads violence, paranoia, and a dangerous hive mind.

Why this is here

Tone labels: claustrophobic · bleak · tense · paranoid · gory · violent · creepy · chilling · dread-filled · unsettling · brutal · anxious · cold

Premise labels: contagion outbreak · isolated base · parasite infection · bioweapon · hive mind · psychological breakdown · survival race · geopolitical crisis · extreme cold trigger · murder mystery

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Distance: 0.1670

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Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

Dougal Dixon · 1990

An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.

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Tone labels: bleak · dark · depressing · eerie · unsettling · grotesque · misanthropic · pessimistic · nightmarish · weird · fascinating · grim

Premise labels: future evolution · human evolution · genetic engineering · posthumanity · future anthropology · speculative biology · survival niches · environmental collapse · future history · human adaptation

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Distance: 0.1685

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Clay's Ark

Octavia E. Butler · 1984 · Patternist

A desert roadside kidnapping pulls a family into an alien-infected colony where survival and consent collide.

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Tone labels: bleak · dark · disturbing · brutal · grim · tense · horrific · morally gray · unsettling · claustrophobic · pessimistic

Premise labels: alien invasion · alien infection · contagion outbreak · kidnapping survival · forced community · symbiotic transformation · humanity under threat

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Distance: 0.1696

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Dawn

Octavia E. Butler · 1987 · Xenogenesis

A lone human survivor wakes aboard an alien ship and must help rebuild Earth under coercive, unsettling conditions.

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Tone labels: unsettling · disturbing · horrifying · tense · mournful · thought-provoking · claustrophobic · uneasy · cold · haunting · brilliant (reader signal)

Premise labels: post apocalypse · alien rescue · forced coexistence · genetic trade · human survival · species hybridization · repopulation · awakening survivors · contact with aliens · second chance

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Distance: 0.1701

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La expedición

Stephen King · 2005 · Skeleton Crew

Four unsettling Stephen King tales span teleportation, survival, family dread, and a slow slide into madness.

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Tone labels: tense · disturbing · macabre · uneasy · claustrophobic · psychological · grotesque · menacing · inquietante · desesperante

Premise labels: teleportation · survival trap · single-location terror · family fear · madness

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Distance: 0.1707

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A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson · 2016

A short-story collection where ordinary situations unravel into uncanny dread, identity loss, and reality-bending horror.

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Tone labels: eerie · unsettling · dread-filled · uncanny · haunting · dark · disturbing · paranoid · ominous · surreal · quiet panic · cold

Premise labels: existential horror · uncanny uncertainty · perception breakdown · epistemic dread · paranoid instability · reality slippage · unexplained terror

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Distance: 0.1714

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The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai · 2018

In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.

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Tone labels: bleak · horrific · hallucinatory · psychedelic · trippy · surreal · visceral · dark · grotesque · beautiful · violent · frenzied · oppressive

Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control

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The Warren

Brian Evenson · 2016

An amnesiac, many-minded survivor in a sealed refuge questions his humanity after finding another person outside.

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Tone labels: bleak · alienating · mysterious · oppressive · disorienting · haunting · grim · claustrophobic · uneasy · intense · cerebral

Premise labels: identity crisis · multiple selves · memory loss · humanity question · last survivor · underground refuge · hostile surface · post-human survival · personhood test · alienation

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Distance: 0.1727

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You Weren't Meant to Be Human

Andrew Joseph White · 2025

A trans, mute autistic man in a worm hive faces forced pregnancy, body horror, and a brutal fight for autonomy.

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Tone labels: bleak · disturbing · visceral · grotesque · horrific · unflinching · claustrophobic · devastating · uncomfortable · transgressive · dark · emotional · haunting · raw

Premise labels: alien invasion · worm hive · cult community · forced pregnancy · body horror · body autonomy · trans survival · identity crisis · marginalized outcasts · hostile world

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Frappabord

Mireille Gagné · 2024

Three linked voices trace a secret wartime experiment and a present-day heatwave where flies and rage spread together.

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Tone labels: creepy · unsettling · disturbing · anxious · haletant · sensual · grotesque · subtle · dreamy · dark · uneasy

Premise labels: dual timeline · insect perspective · biological warfare · eco-horror · climate crisis · hidden experiment · epidemic outbreak · rage contagion · historical secret · human-nature conflict

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Distance: 0.1742

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Tone labels: philosophical · disturbing · intellectual · cool · clinical · haunting · unsettling · melancholic · dark · prescient

Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

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Distance: 0.1742

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