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Premise labels used: return home, small village, secret children, cloning, genetic experiment, scientist doctor, science vs religion, playing God, medical mystery, family secret

Setting labels used: small village, border village, Belgium, German border, Dutch border, 1980s, realist setting, provincial community, religious community

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Doktor Ox'un Deneyi

Jules Verne · 2017

A mysterious scientist’s free lighting project secretly turns a tranquil town volatile through an unseen gas experiment.

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Premise labels: mad scientist · secret experiment · small town · social experiment · free lighting project · gas experiment · scientific interference · human temperament

Setting labels: Flanders · small town · fictional town · 19th century · insular community · utopian village · provincial setting

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Distance: 0.2566

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Lost Boys

Orson Scott Card · 1994

A Mormon family’s move to North Carolina brings everyday tensions, eerie friendships, and a slow-building threat to their young son.

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Premise labels: missing children · family crisis · imaginary friends · child endangerment · small-town mystery · secret evil · parental fear

Setting labels: 1980s · early 1980s · North Carolina · small Southern town · suburban neighborhood · workplace setting · church community · household setting · real-world setting · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2716

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The God Project

John Saul · 1983

In an 1980s small town, grieving parents uncover a secret genetic project tied to missing and endangered children.

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Premise labels: missing children · child endangerment · genetic engineering · secret experiment · government conspiracy · medical conspiracy · scientific hubris · small-town panic · sudden infant death

Setting labels: small town · Massachusetts · 1980s · New England · contemporary 1980s setting

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Distance: 0.2717

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Triskellion

Will Peterson · 2008 · Triskellion

After a divorce, twins sent to rural England uncover a village secret tied to symbols, bees, and buried history.

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Premise labels: twins · family secrets · small-town mystery · supernatural investigation · archaeological mystery · hidden history

Setting labels: English village · rural England · small town · old-world atmosphere · modern-and-ancient contrast · countryside · isolated community

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Distance: 0.2825

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The Twilight Children

Gilbert Hernández · 2016

A mysterious orb and an enigmatic woman upend a seaside village, drawing in outsiders and unsettling local lives.

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Premise labels: mysterious object · small-town disruption · alien visitation · child blindness · government investigation · magical realism · mystery

Setting labels: remote coastal village · Latin American village · seaside town · small town · contemporary setting · speculative reality · tropical setting

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Distance: 0.2877

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Sunbirth

An Yu · 2025

In an isolated desert village, two sisters endure a fading sun, strange beacons, and a family mystery tied to their missing father.

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Premise labels: vanishing sun · isolated village · sisterhood · family mystery · survival · quiet apocalypse · mysterious transformation · unknowable phenomenon

Setting labels: isolated village · desert settlement · lakeside town · small town · climate-collapse setting · speculative world

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Distance: 0.2948

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Bent Heavens

Daniel Kraus · 2020

A grieving teen reopens her father’s alien hunt and finds the truth is far stranger—and darker—than anyone believed.

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Premise labels: missing parent · alien abduction · small-town mystery · teen investigation · secret trap · captured alien · government conspiracy · family grief · revenge

Setting labels: small-town Iowa · rural Iowa · high school setting · woods · contemporary setting · school environment · present day

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Distance: 0.2979

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Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror

Mike Tucker · 2014 · Doctor Who: New Series Adventures

The Doctor and Clara face giant insects in an isolated English village where WWII secrets and ancient stones collide.

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Premise labels: giant insects · small village · isolation · ancient mystery · WWII secret · alien invasion · scientific experiment · zombie-like trance

Setting labels: small English village · English countryside · Wiltshire · Ringstone · WWII era · 1940s · present day · isolated location · stone circle · science park

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Distance: 0.2998

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Masterminds

Gordon Korman · 2015 · Masterminds

A boy in a perfect New Mexico town uncovers a hidden experiment that makes him and his friends question everyone.

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Premise labels: hidden conspiracy · isolated community · crime-free town · secret experiment · clones · criminal masterminds · truth discovery · parents are hiding something · escape plot · investigation

Setting labels: small town · isolated community · New Mexico · present day · utopian veneer · desert setting · controlled environment · secluded town · fictionalized contemporary reality

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Distance: 0.3014

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Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold

Umar Turaki · 2022

A quarantined village’s children, spared by a color-draining plague, struggle to survive, reunite, and find hope.

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Premise labels: mysterious plague · quarantine · survival · found family · young survivors · sibling journey · adult immunity · isolated community · search for cure

Setting labels: small village · isolated town · quarantine zone · barricaded community · Africa · Nigeria · fictional village · post-apocalyptic world

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Distance: 0.3048

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It Came From the Sky

Chelsea Sedoti · 2020

A teen science nerd and his prankster brother fake an alien invasion, and their small-town lie spirals wildly out of control.

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Premise labels: alien hoax · science experiment gone wrong · small-town chaos · brother prank · cover-up · social experiment · fake alien invasion · mass belief

Setting labels: small town · Pennsylvania · family farm · high school · contemporary setting · real-world setting

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Distance: 0.3055

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Seize the Night

Dean Koontz · 2001 · Moonlight Bay

A light-shy man hunts for missing children in a secretive California town where a military base hides twisted science.

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Premise labels: missing children · abandoned military base · genetic experiments · nocturnal protagonist · rare genetic disorder · secret research · small-town secrets · animal intelligence · time-travel experiment · kidnapping investigation

Setting labels: small town · California · coastal town · abandoned military base · underground laboratory · nighttime setting

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Distance: 0.3061

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