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Premise labels used: investigation, occult mystery, shape-shifters, secret species, ancient evil, journalist protagonist, archaeological discovery, doomsday threat

Setting labels used: small-town America, airport setting, Mongolia expedition, ancient prehistory, mid-20th century, noir-inflected reality, urban setting

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Cover of Gideon Falls, Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross by Jeff Lemire

Gideon Falls, Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross

Jeff Lemire · 2019 · Gideon Falls

A priest chases a murderous mystery across time and realities as a small town’s dark secrets begin to surface.

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Premise labels: horror mystery · time travel · parallel worlds · demonic possession · investigation · evil location · secret history · identity mystery

Setting labels: small-town horror · alternate realities · multiple timelines · past and present · rural setting · church setting · barn setting · historical setting · cosmic horror

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2102

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Cover of Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick

Time Out of Joint

Philip K. Dick · 1959

A daily puzzle champion in 1950s America starts noticing cracks in his world and suspects his life is a carefully built illusion.

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Premise labels: constructed reality · paranoia · illusory world · small-town secret · captive protagonist · puzzle contest

Setting labels: 1950s America · suburban life · small town · Cold War era · postwar America · domestic setting

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Distance: 0.2124

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Cover of Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury

Now and Forever

Ray Bradbury · 2007

Two Bradbury novellas: a stranger enters an impossibly timeless town, and a spacefaring crew hunts a white comet.

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Premise labels: mysterious town · hidden community · immortal community · space voyage · obsessive captain · literary retelling · doomed quest

Setting labels: small-town America · Arizona desert · outer space · future setting · 2099 · mysterious town · interstellar voyage · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2230

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Cover of The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman

The Obsidian Blade

Pete Hautman · 2012 · The Klaatu Diskos

A teen chases his missing parents through time portals that warp history, faith, and his family’s future.

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Premise labels: time travel · family mystery · missing parents · portal travel · faith crisis · destiny · alternate realities

Setting labels: small-town Minnesota · rural America · future world · alternate reality · historical periods · religious community · postdigital future

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Distance: 0.2294

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Atlantis

Greg Donegan, Bob Mayer · 1999 · Atlantis

A military rescue mission uncovers a global network of ancient gates tied to Atlantis, aliens, and vanished history.

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Premise labels: ancient mystery · alien invasion · lost civilization · interdimensional gates · global disappearances · legend hunting · secret investigation · returning threat · world-threatening menace

Setting labels: Bermuda Triangle · Devil's Sea · Cambodia · Vietnam War era · present day · ancient Atlantis · global locations · jungle setting · mysterious fog · interdimensional setting

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Distance: 0.2330

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Cover of Forgotten by Krista Street

Forgotten

Krista Street · Lost Children

An amnesiac young woman finds others like her, and together they uncover a dangerous secret while being hunted.

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Premise labels: amnesia · hidden powers · mysterious tattoos · being hunted · mystery investigation · secret origins

Setting labels: small Colorado town · ranch setting · road trip · contemporary setting · secretive enclave

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Distance: 0.2332

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Cover of Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3 by Hiromu Arakawa

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3

Hiromu Arakawa · 2005 · 鋼の錬金術師 [Hagane no Renkinjutsushi]

Two brothers pursue the Philosopher’s Stone, uncovering dark secrets, harsh costs, and dangerous enemies along the way.

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Premise labels: quest · artifact hunt · body restoration · forbidden knowledge · military conspiracy · alchemy

Setting labels: militarized state · postwar setting · small hometown · library setting · secret laboratory · urban center · alternate reality · industrial fantasy

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Distance: 0.2378

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Cover of Gideon Falls, Vol. 6: The End by Jeff Lemire

Gideon Falls, Vol. 6: The End

Jeff Lemire · 2021 · Gideon Falls

A small-town horror finale sends a ragtag group across realities to confront a multiversal evil and its mystery barn.

Why this is here

Premise labels: multiverse crisis · evil force confrontation · chosen ones · apocalyptic threat · cosmic horror · psychiatric mystery · small-town horror

Setting labels: small town · rural setting · parallel universes · multiple timelines · alternate realities · interdimensional reality · cosmic setting

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Cover of John Dies at the End by David Wong

John Dies at the End

David Wong, Jason Pargin · 2009 · John Dies at the End

Two slacker friends gain bizarre vision from a strange drug and stumble into an interdimensional supernatural crisis.

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Premise labels: paranormal investigation · monster hunting · interdimensional threat · drug-induced perception · cosmic horror · slacker protagonists · end-of-world threat · occult mystery · alternate realities · supernatural outbreak

Setting labels: modern America · American Midwest · undisclosed city · video store · small-town suburb · alternate dimension · otherworld · urban supernatural · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2394

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Cover of The Devil Colony by James Rollins

The Devil Colony

James Rollins · 2011 · Sigma Force

A Sigma Force mission uncovers buried artifacts, hidden history, and a science-fueled catastrophe threatening the U.S.

Why this is here

Premise labels: ancient secrets · scientific conspiracy · doomsday threat · secret society · government investigation · historical mystery · race against time · buried artifact · catastrophic chain reaction · national-scale threat

Setting labels: United States · Rocky Mountains · Utah · Yellowstone · Iceland · Fort Knox · American Southwest · historical present-day dual timeline · contemporary setting · geological disaster zone

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Distance: 0.2400

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Cover of American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett

American Elsewhere

Robert Jackson Bennett · 2013

An ex-cop inherits a house in a hidden New Mexico town and uncovers a family mystery tangled with cosmic horrors.

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Premise labels: inheritance mystery · small-town secrets · ex-cop protagonist · missing mother · hidden town · research-lab fallout · cosmic intrusion · otherworldly residents · family mystery · outsider enters closed community

Setting labels: New Mexico · small town · rural America · isolated town · desert setting · mesa setting · mountain town · post-1950s aesthetic · mid-century atmosphere · parallel reality

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