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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: Lovecraft adaptation, cosmic horror, ancient city, grave robbing, submarine horror, forbidden knowledge, occult discovery
Setting labels used: ocean depths, desert ruins, submarine, ancient city, archaic past, mythic antiquity
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
A scholar’s investigation into strange documents uncovers an ancient cosmic entity, a cult, and a dread beyond reason.
Why this is here
Premise labels: cosmic horror · ancient entity · forbidden knowledge · investigation · occult mystery · mythos · dream contact · eldritch threat
Setting labels: ocean depths · submerged city · ancient ruins · swamp · global locations · fictional cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1480
Lovecraft’s complete fiction in chronological order, tracing the rise of cosmic horror through eerie tales, novellas, and fragments.
Why this is here
Premise labels: forbidden knowledge · cosmic horror · eldritch mystery · ancient horrors · dream worlds · forbidden places · madness · supernatural horror · mythos lore
Setting labels: dreamland · seas and oceans · caves · crypts · houses · ancient ruins · isolated spaces · cosmic setting · alternate reality · past and primordial times
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1681
A curated collection of Clark Ashton Smith’s weird fiction, prose poems, and poetry, rich in ornate language and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Premise labels: cosmic horror · dark fantasy · weird tales · forbidden knowledge · ancient curses · occult discovery · doomed curiosity · haunted ruins · magical peril · alien worlds · metaphysical wonder
Setting labels: imaginary realms · ancient past · far future · lost civilizations · desert landscapes · ruins · crypts · tombs · alien suns · Hyperborea · Averoigne · fantastic secondary world · Earth (occasional)
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1918
An archaeologist uncovers an ancient secret tied to Atlantis, time travel, and humanity's survival.
Why this is here
Premise labels: lost civilization · ancient secret · human origins · time travel · archaeology · apocalypse · viral outbreak · conspiracy · ancient technology · race against time
Setting labels: ocean floor · underwater archaeology · prehistory · near future · contemporary · distant past · ancient world · mysterious land · glacial discovery
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2224
An epic historical-fantasy retelling of a sacred-age king’s rise, wars, and clash with an underground threat.
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Premise labels: hidden world · subterranean beings · ancient prophecy · chosen ruler · cosmic struggle · good versus evil · quest for truth · distant past · end-times threat
Setting labels: ancient Persia · Babylonia · pre-Islamic antiquity · mythic past · underground realm · desert landscape · classical empires · historical fantasy world · liminal sacred history
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2233
A research expedition in Antarctica uncovers a buried alien city and the terrifying history hidden within it.
Why this is here
Premise labels: Antarctic expedition · lost expedition · alien city · ancient civilization · cosmic horror · forbidden knowledge · survival mission · mystery investigation · eldritch discovery · history of nonhuman species
Setting labels: Antarctica · icy continent · desolate landscape · alien city · underground tunnels · caves · mountain range · prehistoric Earth · ancient ruins · nonhuman civilization · cold-climate setting · extreme isolation
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2312
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
Premise labels: cosmic horror · forbidden knowledge · investigation · secret cult · ancient god · awakening threat · madness · eldritch horror
Setting labels: 1920s · Massachusetts · Louisiana bayous · Pacific Ocean · submerged city · port town · undersea realm · Earthbound cosmic horror · mythic antiquity
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Distance: 0.2340
A surface-dweller enters a hidden underground civilization and becomes caught in the events that lead to its fall.
Why this is here
Premise labels: prequel · first contact · underground civilization · civilizational collapse · forbidden love · trust and betrayal · political intrigue · surface dweller
Setting labels: underground city · desert surface · subterranean society · parallel worlds · otherworldly travel · ancient civilization · pre-fall society
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Distance: 0.2383
A chained city’s fragile faith cracks as an angel, an assassin, and a blood-drinking rival uncover a deadly truth below.
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Premise labels: city on chains · abyssal city · fallen god · angel assassin · theocratic rule · blood sacrifice · quest below · uneasy alliance · impending annihilation
Setting labels: suspended city · abyssal chasm · industrial city · gothic city · theocratic city · desert frontier · alternate world · mythic cosmology · underworld
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Distance: 0.2415
An illustrated Lovecraftian anthology reimagines classic monsters through horror, noir, weird western, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Premise labels: Lovecraft monsters · mythos anthology · monster reinterpretations · cosmic horror · Lovecraft tribute
Setting labels: Innsmouth · post-apocalyptic Earth · Old West · Victorian era · jungle adventure · Indonesia · southeast Asia · modern setting · cosmic setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2429
Seventeen linked speculative horror stories of old gods, colonial critique, and strange human survival across eerie worlds.
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Premise labels: cosmic horror · old gods · eldritch horror · monsters and gods · human vs unknown · scientific inquiry · apocalyptic threat · world under strain · investigation into the uncanny · offering and sacrifice · reclaiming horror · social justice horror
Setting labels: rural Canada · France · Uganda · deep sea · oceanic · underwater · deep space · alternate dimensions · wartime · post-apocalyptic · small towns · colonized planet · cosmic setting · contemporary speculative world · mythic landscape
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Distance: 0.2434
Jake and the Animorphs dive into a secret undersea world to stop a Yeerk weapon and survive its monstrous inhabitants.
Why this is here
Premise labels: undersea mission · alien ship hunt · hidden civilization · rescue mission · war sabotage · body horror
Setting labels: underwater · ocean depths · hidden sea cave · secret civilization · Earth-based · Atlantis-like
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2457
