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Premise labels used: wrongly convicted prisoner, experimental punishment, torture device, body transformation, redemption choice, secret program, state punishment, scientific experiment, metaphysical transformation, origin story

Setting labels used: near future, experimental facility, prison system, secret government program, medical/treatment facility, correctional program, claustrophobic setting

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Death Sentence

Alexander Gordon Smith · 2011 · Escape from Furnace

A failed escape lands a teen prisoner in a grotesque transformation into the monster he fears most.

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Premise labels: prison escape · body transformation · forced mutation · brainwashing · monster becoming · memory loss · survival struggle · captivity and escape · experimental prison · fight for humanity

Setting labels: underground prison · futuristic prison · secret laboratory · present day · modern time · dystopian facility · underworld setting · prison hospital · military experiment site · unknown location

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Distance: 0.1578

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Wolverine: Weapon X

Barry Windsor-Smith · 1994 · Marvel Comics Presents (1988)

A mutant is abducted into a secret experiment that turns him into a weapon through brutal body-horror science.

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Premise labels: origin story · weaponization · human experimentation · secret program · kidnapping · dehumanization · body horror · scientific horror

Setting labels: laboratory · research complex · military facility · underground facility · claustrophobic setting · dark setting · science fiction setting · modern setting

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Distance: 0.1940

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Lockdown

Alexander Gordon Smith · 2009 · Escape from Furnace

A framed teen is sent to a hellish underground prison and must survive long enough to find a way out.

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Premise labels: wrongly accused · false imprisonment · prison escape · survival ordeal · juvenile prison · underground prison · nightmarish prison · framed innocent

Setting labels: underground prison · futuristic society · dystopian future · confinement · claustrophobic setting · maximum security prison · nightmare prison · isolated setting

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The Vital Abyss

James S.A. Corey · 2015 · The Expanse

A captive scientist recounts the hidden backstory behind a disastrous secret research program in the Expanse universe.

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Premise labels: prisoners in captivity · scientist backstory · morally compromised research · protomolecule research · secret experiment aftermath · character study

Setting labels: solar system · hard-scrabble solar system · locked room · prison setting · space station · near future · captivity

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Deadman Wonderland Volume 5

Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondō · 2011 · Deadman Wonderland

A rebel prison breakout turns into a bloody showdown as Ganta’s powers grow and hidden agendas close in.

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Premise labels: prison escape · public execution · blood powers · revolt · secret conspiracy · leaked data · survival struggle

Setting labels: prison setting · amusement park prison · dystopian setting · constructed reality · contained facility

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Distance: 0.2086

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Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water

Vylar Kaftan · 2019

A telepath trapped in a cave prison with only her lover starts hearing another mind that may expose everything.

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Premise labels: telepath prison · memory loss · escape attempt · survival · hidden truth · mind prison · forbidden telepathy · survival under oppression

Setting labels: prison planet · underground caverns · labyrinth · alien world · future · dystopian future · claustrophobic setting · mindscape

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Intercepts: A Horror Novel

T.J. Payne · 2026

A covert experimenter’s work turns personal when a hidden government weapon starts haunting his grieving daughter.

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Premise labels: human experimentation · secret facility · government conspiracy · remote viewing · psychic weaponization · sensory deprivation · revenge · father-daughter protection · mind control · surveillance state · hidden abilities

Setting labels: secret underground facility · laboratory · padded cells · sensory deprivation chamber · covert government site · contemporary setting · paranoia-driven workplace · home setting · surveillance culture · high-security institution

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エルフェンリート 1 [Elfen Lied 1]

Lynn Okamoto, 岡本倫 · 2002 · Elfen Lied

An escaped mutant with split identities is taken in by strangers while the government hunts her down.

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Premise labels: experimental subject · escaped captive · split personality · telekinetic powers · new human race · government facility · government experimentation · fugitive girl

Setting labels: Japanese setting · government laboratory · secret facility · urban setting · contemporary setting · science fiction reality · speculative biology

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Black Bolt, Vol. 1: Hard Time

Saladin Ahmed · 2017 · Black Bolt

A silent king wakes powerless in a brutal space prison and must escape with unlikely allies, including a former enemy.

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Premise labels: imprisoned hero · powerless protagonist · prison break · alien prison · team-up with criminals · forced alliance · wrongfully imprisoned · mystery captivity · redemption through captivity · silent protagonist

Setting labels: outer space · deep space · intergalactic prison · secret prison · galactic prison · futuristic setting · alien setting · cosmic setting · contained setting · claustrophobic setting

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Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine

Kelly Sue DeConnick · 2015 · Bitch Planet (Collected Editions)

Women deemed “noncompliant” are exiled to a prison planet, where inmates resist an oppressive patriarchy.

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Premise labels: Noncompliance punishment · Prison planet · Patriarchal control · Women inmates · Forced competition · State oppression · Female rebellion

Setting labels: Near-future · Off-world prison · Patriarchal dystopia · Earth · Penal colony · Future society · Alternate reality

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Camp Concentration

Thomas M. Disch · 1999

A war-era poet is sent to a secret prison camp where a drug makes inmates brilliant, then kills them.

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Premise labels: alternate history · near-future war · military experiment · intelligence enhancement · prisoner experiment · conscientious objector · experimental drug · genius creation · death sentence

Setting labels: alternate 1970s · underground facility · secret camp · military prison · research facility · wartime America · near future · world war

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The Block

Ben Oliver · 2021 · The Loop Trilogy

A trapped teen must survive a harsher prison, resist a mind-bending AI, and rally allies before reality breaks him.

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Premise labels: imprisonment · prison break · AI takeover · virtual reality · energy harvesting · mind manipulation · survival mission · resistance building · escape attempt · fight system · friend rescue · save friends

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic city · prison setting · virtual reality space · simulation · AI-controlled world · underground tunnels · destroyed city · futuristic prison · the Block · the Sane Zone · Purgatory

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Distance: 0.2328

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