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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for From Beyond.
Themes labels used: limits of perception, human senses, reality beyond appearances, scientific hubris, forbidden knowledge, madness, cosmic insignificance, curiosity and consequences, technology and danger, existential fear
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A manga adaptation of Lovecraft’s Antarctic expedition story, where scientists uncover deadly mysteries beneath the ice.
Why this is here
Themes labels: forbidden knowledge · cosmic insignificance · human curiosity · progress · discovery and exploration · madness · ego · science and inquiry · the unknown · human fragility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1163
An inquest into a gruesome death in the woods turns on a witness’s account of an unseen, possibly impossible attacker.
Why this is here
Themes labels: fear of the unknown · limits of perception · human ignorance · nature · the paranormal · skepticism · scientific explanation · uncertainty · epistemology · reality vs appearance · primal fear · unseen danger
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1175
Five linked Cthulhu-mythos tales of cults, ruins, and forbidden knowledge, where curiosity opens the door to cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Themes labels: forbidden knowledge · insanity · human smallness · cosmic insignificance · hidden worlds · ancient evil · curiosity · belief and skepticism · otherness · mystery and revelation · fear of the unknown · madness through knowledge · science vs occult · religion and cults · fragility of the mind · alien intrusion · doomed inquiry
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1227
A linked collection of Lovecraft’s mythos tales, where investigators uncover ancient horrors, alien truths, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human insignificance · forbidden knowledge · fear of the unknown · madness · cosmic indifference · skepticism vs belief · isolation · ancient past · unseen reality · rationality failing · ineffability · otherness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1237
An Antarctic SETI disaster launches a cross-time chase into Kant, AI, and the limits of human reality.
Why this is here
Themes labels: reality · perception · consciousness · limits of human knowledge · metaphysics · existence of God · humanity · alienness · language · time and space
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1268
Two 1930s novellas unite science, mystery, and dread as brilliant men confront deaths, secrets, and the unknown.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human limits · forbidden knowledge · death and the soul · grief · loss · obsession · epistemic uncertainty · human insignificance · science versus the unknown · realism versus the irrational · moral judgment · knowledge at a cost
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1297
A research expedition in Antarctica uncovers a buried alien city and the terrifying history hidden within it.
Why this is here
Themes labels: cosmic horror · forbidden knowledge · sanity loss · human insignificance · curiosity and danger · mystery · discovery · prehuman history · origins of life · ancient civilizations · otherness · survival · desolation · fear of the unknown · scientific wonder · inevitability of madness · power of art
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1326
A stranded astronaut wanders a physics-breaking alien labyrinth, recounting how the mission went wrong as dread builds.
Why this is here
Themes labels: isolation · madness · identity erosion · survival · human insignificance · fear of the unknown · transformation · limits of understanding · contact with the other · human curiosity · body horror
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1339
A man recounts a night of strange death, eerie marriage, and widening dread to uncover the truth behind a friend’s suicide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: unknown reality · limits of reason · human insignificance · cosmic insignificance · science vs mystery · science vs the supernatural · knowledge and fear · perception and interpretation · the uncanny · gender roles · misogyny · otherness · madness · existential dread · identity · death · hidden truth · what cannot be explained
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1361
A found manuscript leads two men into a remote Irish house where a recluse’s horrors escalate into cosmic visions.
Why this is here
Themes labels: fear of the unknown · cosmic insignificance · madness · solitude · grief · mortality · time · space · reality fracture · human limits · mystery · belief and disbelief
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1392
Quantum physics opens a route to the stars, but first contact and a dimension-shifting crisis threaten everything.
Why this is here
Themes labels: scientific curiosity · limits of knowledge · humanity and technology · consequences of experimentation · first contact · dimension shifting · reality and perception · nature of reality · progress and discovery · responsibility · greed versus caution · frontiers of knowledge · human inadequacy · science and wonder
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1431
An heir pieces together documents and clues about a secret cult and an ancient sea-born terror stirring beneath the world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human insignificance · madness · forbidden knowledge · ancient evil · epistemic uncertainty · reality vs illusion · cosmic indifference · race prejudice · doom
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1433
