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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for The Asylum. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Tone labels used: dark, creepy, unsettling, horrifying, disturbing, twisted, gritty, nightmarish, suspenseful
Premise labels used: mental institution, doctor investigation, patient accounts, secret truth, insanity, hidden conspiracy, descent into madness
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone + premise embeddings are close.
An amnesiac woman recovering in a hospital begins seeing impossible men from her traumatic past—and doubts her sanity.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · tense · suspenseful · nightmarish · eerie · surreal · unsettling · intense · paranoid
Premise labels: amnesia · hospital confinement · traumatic past · past violence · identity mystery · memory loss · psychological mystery · possible haunting
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1570
A woman in a hospital remembers an explosion, and a doctor’s questions slowly turn a simple recovery into something darker.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · creepy · sad · disturbing · chilling · horrifying · twisted · unsettling
Premise labels: hospital recovery · memory loss · twist ending · unreliable account · hidden truth · dark secret · double meaning
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1570
After a fatal collapse, a troubled woman wakes with чужие memories and must outrun danger to learn what’s real.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · creepy · tense · unsettling · suspenseful · gritty · horrifying · paranoid · twisty · fast-paced
Premise labels: memory transfer · implanted memories · unreliable perception · medical experiment · cross-country search · woman in danger · identity crisis · missing truth · murder mystery · psychological disturbance
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1650
A detective questions a murder suspect whose confession points to a far stranger explanation than a simple killing.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · uneasy · unsettling · dark · tense · chilling · disturbing · subtle horror
Premise labels: police interrogation · murder confession · conspiracy theory · possible alien possession · online paranoia · domestic unraveling · insidious revelation
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1776
Two cousins who can inhabit other bodies must unravel a basement death after their new lives trap them in a dangerous house.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · haunting · disturbing · dark · eerie · tense · unsettling · nightmarish · atmospheric · gripping · twisty · morbid
Premise labels: body swapping · body possession · dead body mystery · forbidden rules · family secret · identity theft · house confinement · escape from past
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1808
A reporter investigates a self-help cult after her fiancé’s suicide and finds a terrifying supernatural conspiracy.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · disturbing · gross · twisted · dark · unsettling · psychologically terrifying · intense
Premise labels: cult investigation · self-help cult · journalist protagonist · suicide mystery · hidden truth · supernatural conspiracy · body horror · celebrity culture
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1842
A married couple confronts escalating phobias and missing time, uncovering a sinister mind-control scheme.
Why this is here
Tone labels: disturbing · creepy · tense · suspenseful · intense · dark · anxiety-inducing · twisted · humorous moments · emotionally charged
Premise labels: mind control · false memories · phobia outbreak · psychiatric manipulation · brainwashing · subconscious control · mysterious illness · ordinary couple under threat
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1846
A medical student uncovers a lethal hospital conspiracy after routine surgeries leave healthy patients in comas.
Why this is here
Tone labels: suspenseful · creepy · disturbing · tense · thrilling · unpleasant · gruesome · dread-filled · old-school
Premise labels: medical mystery · hospital conspiracy · routine surgery danger · coma outbreak · organ trafficking · black market organs · female investigator · medical ethics
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1948
A woman with a missing year enters a luxury memory clinic, only to find her memories and reality are being rewritten.
Why this is here
Tone labels: intriguing · unsettling · creepy · dark · tense · suspenseful · thought-provoking · emotional · witty · humorous · off-kilter · paranoid · atmospheric
Premise labels: memory manipulation · lost memories · false memories · memory recovery · institutional secrecy · corporate conspiracy · unreliable reality · trust issues · identity crisis
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1951
A psychology professor recreates a notorious sleep-deprivation experiment, and the lab slowly turns into a nightmare.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · creepy · horrifying · disturbing · unsettling · gruesome · chilling · tense · nightmarish
Premise labels: sleep deprivation experiment · forbidden experiment · scientific hubris · mad scientist · psychological breakdown · ethics of science · urban legend retelling
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1961
An amnesiac cameraman retraces a lost period of his life, uncovering love, deception, and a reality no one can quite see.
Why this is here
Tone labels: psychological · sinister · uneasy · dreamlike · haunting · unsettling · intellectual · suspenseful · thought-provoking
Premise labels: amnesia · invisibility · love triangle · missing memory · identity crisis · hidden reality · psychological puzzle
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1972
A respectable lawyer investigates a sinister connection between a doctor and his violent secret alter ego.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · dark · gloomy · tense · sinister · macabre · unnerving · chilling · oppressive · shocking · suspenseful
Premise labels: dual identity · doppelgänger · split self · secret alter ego · mad scientist · self-experimentation · good vs evil · inner darkness · repressed desires
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1985
