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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Lovecraft Compendium.
Setting labels used: New England, rural New England, deep sea, oceanic setting, remote island, urban ruin, abandoned cathedral, American setting, early 20th century, war-era setting, academic milieu, small-town setting, global conspiracy
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A group of interconnected Lovecraft tales follows scholars and witnesses into cults, ruins, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New England · ocean depths · remote village · isolated coast · rural countryside · desert ruins · mountains · forest · small-town gothic · ancient ruins · mythic universe · cosmic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1366
A lavish collection of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos tales, where forbidden lore and alien horrors erode reality and sanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New England · small towns · isolated places · antiquarian settings · ancient ruins · subterranean worlds · ocean depths · Antarctica · outer space · deep time · early 20th century · archaic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1463
In a Maine farm community after technology stops working, a writer’s past returns in a strange nuclear-powered vehicle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Maine · coastal Maine · peninsula community · post-collapse America · near future · small fictional town · fragmented United States · post-technological world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1975
A PTSD-stricken veteran faces three days of darkness, monstrous invaders, and a reality-shattering explanation for hell on Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural New Hampshire · suburban neighborhood · modern day · apocalyptic setting · Earth · hellish landscape · contemporary setting · small-town America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2019
A chronological anthology of Lovecraft Mythos tales by Lovecraft and later writers, tracing cosmic horror across decades.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New England · academic setting · small town · cosmic horror world · 20th century · future setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2030
A former detective races across a collapsing America to find his missing sister before an asteroid ends the world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: pre-apocalyptic Earth · United States · Massachusetts · New England · Ohio · small town · abandoned town · deserted police station · barricaded shelters · chaotic society · post-collapse landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2078
An original horror anthology gathers global writers for a range of creepy, old-school, and often uneven tales.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern times · historical settings · 19th-century rural England · New England · American backwoods · Cornish landscape · rural setting · small town · isolated house
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2107
A grieving woman on a storm-battered island confronts strange messages, ghostly echoes, and a vanishing world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: remote island · North Atlantic · small island community · coastal setting · dying town · near-future · apocalyptic setting · climate-affected world · isolated village · oceanfront · wild nature · storm-battered
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2119
A pregnant nurse infected by a combustible plague fights to survive a collapsing world with help from a mysterious Fireman.
Why this is here
Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New Hampshire · New England · hospital setting · camp setting · collapsed civilization · small town · post-pandemic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2181
In a fly-ravaged near future, three survivors follow separate quests that may reveal how to save what remains.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · rural New England · New England woods · small-town isolation · farmhouse setting · abandoned cinema · movie theatre setting · post-pandemic world · science-fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2216
A modern graphic adaptation of Lovecraftian horror where a small town faces an occult, otherworldly threat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural New England · small town · isolated farmhouse · early 20th century · fictional horror world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2219
Three survivor groups race through a sudden, mysterious cascade of disasters as the world falls apart around them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · East Coast · Northeastern US · Massachusetts · Rhode Island · New England · apocalyptic world · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2225
