Making Space
A childless woman finds a mysterious boy in the woods, and caring for him pulls her into a dark time-travel mystery.
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Plot structure labels used: mystery box, slow reveal, twist ending, first-half setup, late payoff, withheld backstory, escalating danger, climactic violence
Focused on “slow-burn dread” where exact label matches exist.
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The Burning Dark
A retired war hero overseeing a space-station shutdown uncovers ghosts, sabotage, and a signal from far beyond.
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A grieving writer meets a woman who looks exactly like his missing love, forcing him into a deadly mystery.
Passage
A hospital psychologist and a neurologist probe near-death experiences, only to uncover a mystery that grows far stranger and deeper.
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Planetfall
On a distant colony world, an engineer’s buried secret and worsening anxiety surface when a stranger arrives.
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Clean Room, Vol. 2: Exile
A journalist and a cult leader collide amid body horror, hidden conspiracies, and a secret world of demons or aliens.
The Klingon Gambit
The Enterprise investigates dead Vulcans and a Klingon standoff on a mysterious planet as the crew begins acting strangely.
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The House of Thunder
An amnesiac woman recovering in a hospital begins seeing impossible men from her traumatic past—and doubts her sanity.
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Glasshouse
An amnesiac future fugitive hides inside a 20th-century social experiment that soon turns sinister.
The Second Sleep
A young priest's routine funeral in a remote village opens into a forbidden mystery about a lost civilization and his own world.
The Underground City
A mine engineer returns to a supposedly exhausted Scottish coal mine and uncovers a hidden underground world of mystery and danger.
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Arca
A teen laborer on a dying-Earth escape ship uncovers the hidden truth behind the elite’s promised paradise.