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Setting labels used: funeral home, morgue, mortuary, pharmaceutical company, corporate setting, urban setting, contemporary setting, post-mortem reality, scientific undead world
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A large zombie anthology that ranges from classic undead horror to literary, political, and surreal takes on the living dead.
Why this is here
Setting labels: apocalypse · post-apocalypse · modern era · varied settings · social collapse · fictionalized undead reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2059
A med-school dropout turned facility doctor falls for her undead patient, then gets pulled into his revenge and escape plan.
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Setting labels: research facility · secret facility · isolated facility · medical setting · undead world · monster containment · laboratory · post-dropout life · contemporary setting
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Distance: 0.2120
After death, a teen wakes in an AI-ruled afterlife and joins a rebellion to save humanity and define what makes people human.
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Setting labels: afterlife · post-death world · AI-controlled society · dystopian court system · death realm · futuristic afterlife · science fantasy world · partly contemporary earth
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Distance: 0.2132
Five eerie Stephen King tales turn ordinary situations into quick, grotesque, and sometimes darkly funny horror.
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Setting labels: suburban setting · domestic setting · workplace horror · everyday reality · supernatural reality
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Distance: 0.2239
A genius with hallucinatory specialist “aspects” investigates a stolen corpse hiding dangerous biotech data.
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Setting labels: alternate present-day USA · urban setting · corporate intrigue · biotech lab world · morgue · mansion · speculative reality
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Distance: 0.2254
A zombie anthology of varied, modern takes on death, resurrection, and survival, mixing horror, satire, grief, and surprise.
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Setting labels: 21st century · post-apocalyptic future · modern day · near future · zombie-occupied world · resurrection world · dystopian future · urban setting · small town setting · world after outbreak
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Distance: 0.2321
Captured by a brutal facility, a young woman is trained for a weaponized Alpha and survival turns into dangerous intimacy.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian world · research facility · medical facility · prison setting · underground facility · isolated compound · ruined world · deadlands · zombie apocalypse
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Distance: 0.2324
A sarcastic ex-action star wakes in an asylum as zombies overrun the world, forcing him to survive and uncover the truth.
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Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · mental institution · post-apocalyptic world · zombie-infested world · urban survival · research lab · government research · collapsed society · contemporary earth · apocalypse onset
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Distance: 0.2329
Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.
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Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality
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Distance: 0.2370
A biotech thriller weaving together genetic experiments, patent fights, and transgenic animals in a near-present world.
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Setting labels: contemporary · near future · present-day science · biotech industry · laboratory setting · legal setting · corporate setting · urban setting · global · sci-fi realism
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Distance: 0.2389
A lone zombie-apocalypse scavenger makes one risky hospital run that turns into a brutal, creepy fight to escape.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie apocalypse · abandoned hospital · undead suburbia · solitary mountain cabin · near-town scavenging route · urban ruins · hospital interior · apocalyptic wasteland
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Distance: 0.2405
A lone survivor joins a museum refuge and faces both the undead and the darker horrors of surviving humans.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie-infested world · museum-turned-compound · fortified museum · dead city · prison · small town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2422
