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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Premise labels used: dual identity, good and evil, inner self, forbidden experiment, scientific hubris, split personality, moral duality, hidden self

Themes labels used: duality, morality, repression, Victorian morality, sexual repression, hypocrisy, self-control, identity, conscience, sin, addiction, temptation, human nature, good versus evil, social respectability, moral decay, scientific ethics

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1875

A respectable lawyer investigates a sinister connection between a doctor and his violent secret alter ego.

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Premise labels: dual identity · doppelgänger · split self · secret alter ego · mad scientist · self-experimentation · good vs evil · inner darkness · repressed desires

Themes labels: duality of human nature · good and evil · repression · hypocrisy · respectability · morality · ambition · curiosity · loss of control · identity · vice · self-destruction · psychology · appearance vs reality · social norms · deception · mental illness · shame

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Henrietta & Eleanor: A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde

Libby Spurrier, Robert Louis Stevenson · 2018

A full-cast modern audio retelling follows a female doctor whose experiment splits her dark and light sides in London.

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Premise labels: gender swap · modern retelling · dual nature · split self · good and evil · dark side · secret identity · scientific experiment · hidden monster

Themes labels: duality · good and evil · human nature · moral conflict · identity · self-control · repression · freedom · double life · gender roles · social expectations · psychological duality

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Hyde

Daniel Levine, Robert Louis Stevenson · 2014

A gothic retelling of Jekyll and Hyde from Hyde’s perspective, exposing hidden motives, abuse, and a fractured mind.

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Premise labels: villain perspective · psychological retelling · dual identity · altered self · secret self · unreliable narrator · sympathetic villain · origin story · medical experiment · self-experimentation · hidden past · framed for crimes · competing personalities · mind-body split

Themes labels: duality · identity · repression · self-knowledge · hidden nature · human nature · morality · good and evil · social hypocrisy · class hypocrisy · abuse trauma · psychological fragmentation · sexual repression · survival · self-destruction

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Frankenstein / Dracula / Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson · 2006

Three foundational gothic-horror classics in one volume: a scientist's creation, a vampire's hunt, and a divided self.

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Premise labels: scientific overreach · forbidden experiment · monster creation · vampire hunt · dual identity · hidden self · good vs evil · moral corruption · secrets and consequences · investigation of the uncanny

Themes labels: duality · good vs evil · human nature · scientific ethics · responsibility · abandonment · isolation · ambition · reputation · identity · temptation · morality · control · companion need · science vs religion · civilization vs savagery

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Quantum Night

Robert J. Sawyer · 2016

A psychologist who can spot psychopaths uncovers a missing six months of his own life and a theory that could alter humanity.

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Premise labels: psychopathy detection · human consciousness · quantum mind · missing memory · race against time · utilitarian dilemma · global unrest · human nature

Themes labels: consciousness · conscience · psychopathy · morality · utilitarianism · free will · human nature · ethics · social control · mob mentality · violence · hate · identity · memory · determinism · prejudice · dehumanization · greater good · collective responsibility

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Smoke

Dan Vyleta · 2016 · Smoke

In an alternate Victorian England, two schoolboys uncover a secret behind the smoke that marks sin, class, and power.

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Premise labels: visible sin · class divide · boarding school · morality system · alternate England · forbidden knowledge · social control · hidden truth · moral oppression · search for origins

Themes labels: sin and virtue · class oppression · social control · hypocrisy · morality · emotion and repression · religion and science · power and privilege · truth seeking · identity · free will · corruption · colonialism · xenophobia · class consciousness

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Glitch

Heather Anastasiu · 2012 · Glitch

In an emotionless underground society, a glitching teen hides forbidden powers while risking deactivation and rebellion.

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Premise labels: mind control · emotion suppression · individual awakening · teen resistance · secret powers · hidden anomaly · controlled society · forbidden feelings

Themes labels: individuality · free will · emotions · identity · control · resistance · choice · truth · surveillance · dehumanization · freedom · coming of age · morality

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The Glass Scientists: Volume One

S.H. Cotugno, Sabrina Cotugno · 2023 · The Glass Scientists

In Victorian London, a public-facing scientist builds a haven for “rogue” minds while a dangerous secret and new arrivals threaten it.

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Premise labels: mad science · rogue scientists · secret identity · buried secrets · public image · misunderstood monsters · found family · scientific haven · social acceptance · identity conflict

Themes labels: duality · self-acceptance · repression · identity · morality · societal expectations · otherness · marginalization · public image · acceptance · human nature · secrecy · belonging · class judgment · queer identity · gender identity

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Parasyte, Volume 4

Hitoshi Iwaaki · 2008 · Parasyte (8 Volumes Edition)

A teen secretly linked to a parasite is pulled into escalating danger as other parasites infiltrate society and politics.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · body sharing · secret identity · parasitic takeover · humanity vs inhumanity · social infiltration · psychic sensitivity

Themes labels: humanity · identity · environmentalism · dehumanization · coexistence · morality · social integration · psychological change · fear and paranoia · self-preservation · weakness · loss

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Elites of Eden

Joey Graceffa · 2017 · Children of Eden

A brainwashed elite girl begins to uncover her real identity in a controlled future society built on lies.

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Premise labels: hidden identity · memory loss · brainwashing · false reality · artificial world · second child · elite school · underground resistance · restricted society · identity crisis · love triangle · state control

Themes labels: identity · memory · individuality · control · freedom · surveillance · manipulation · resistance · truth vs lies · environmental damage · ecology · social inequality · class divide · self-discovery · sacrifice · human nature · belonging · choice · love is love · brainwashing

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Half Life

Shelley Jackson · 2006

A conjoined twin in a post-nuclear alternate America seeks separation, only to confront a destabilizing mystery about her past.

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Premise labels: conjoined twins · shared body · identity crisis · body autonomy · surgical separation · alternate society · minority allegory · unreliable reality · mystery quest

Themes labels: identity · selfhood · duality · otherness · individuation · body autonomy · minority rights · gender politics · queer politics · sexual politics · assimilation · stigma · embodiment · consciousness · madness · memory · trauma · reality vs perception · ethics · euthanasia · abortion · environmental degradation · nuclear guilt · monstrosity · community · self-interest

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My Name Isn't Paul: A Cosmic Horror Novella

Drew Huff · 2025

An alien mimic living as a salesman unravels as his species’ breeding cycle forces a crisis of self and hunger.

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Premise labels: identity crisis · hidden identity · mimicry · alien among humans · human disguise · existential dread · body horror · reproductive horror

Themes labels: identity · humanity · self-loathing · shame · guilt · masking · personhood · alienation · transgression · consent · biology vs choice · parenthood · grief · acceptance · morality · survival

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