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Setting labels used: modern-day Philippines, urban setting, subdivision, isolated house, basement, contemporary, Philippine setting, housebound
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A 21-story anthology of modern Lovecraft-inspired horror, mixing cosmic dread, homage, and new twists on the mythos.
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Setting labels: modern day · period pieces · urban setting · desert setting · backwoods setting · apartment building
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2306
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A possessed friend, a fragile house, and a bizarre training plan push a chaotic teen crew into new rules and new bonds.
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Setting labels: modern school · family home · shared household · boarding house · shrine · urban supernatural · Japanese setting · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2380
A blackout, a runaway child, and a stolen mind-altering machine pull four gifted friends into their most dangerous puzzle yet.
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Setting labels: contemporary world · small town · house setting · prison setting · urban blackout · home base · contained setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2434
A debut story collection where Filipino folklore, queer desire, and urban legends collide across darkly magical worlds.
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Setting labels: Philippines · Manila · San Francisco · diaspora · immigrant community · Catholic school · girls' school · retreat house · spa · tech company · near future · contemporary · afterlife · underworld
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2459
A genius with hallucinatory expert companions tackles a mystery involving a camera that can capture the past.
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Setting labels: contemporary setting · real world setting · mansion
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2475
A boy imagines and narrates his wildly inventive dream house, room by room, in playful rhyming verse.
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Setting labels: domestic setting · house setting · fantastical reality · retro-futuristic world · mid-century aesthetic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2482
A 15-year-old boy wakes up invisible and teams with a blind girl while his family races to explain and reverse it.
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Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · library setting · home setting · urban setting
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Distance: 0.2580
A gonzo journalist battles a corrupt president, police violence, and censorship in a filthy future city.
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Setting labels: Futuristic city · Dystopian city · Urban setting · Political future · Retro-future · Noir cityscape
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Distance: 0.2588
A woman trapped at home during a sudden invasion of human-like mimics fights to survive as society collapses around her.
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Setting labels: modern home · rainy night · societal collapse · apocalyptic setting · domestic space · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2623
In a sprawling apartment complex, a police investigation uncovers deadly psychic forces, until a child challenges the terror.
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Setting labels: Japan · apartment complex · housing complex · public housing project · tower block · urban setting · modern world · crowded residential complex · microcosm setting · claustrophobic setting · architectural setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2638
An exhausted family welcomes a humanoid AI helper, only to find it acting on their unspoken fears and wishes.
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Setting labels: contemporary setting · near-future technology · domestic setting · family home · suburban neighborhood · school setting · workplace stress
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2663
A woman’s ordinary life is disrupted when her future self arrives with a warning that could change everything.
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Setting labels: contemporary · domestic setting · household setting · future and present · uncanny realism · surreal overlay
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2665
