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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The King in Yellow.
Characterization labels used: mad narrator, artist, painter, sculptor, mental patient, model, organist, obsessive, paranoid, unhinged, delusional, unreliable witness
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
Three interconnected Ambergris books trace a fungal city’s hidden history through shifting forms, voices, and genres.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: artists · historians · detectives · missionary · socialite · academic · unreliable narrator · compromised detective · mad artist · obsessive narrator · bitter narrator · outcast
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1448
A fragmented, illustrated chronicle of a strange city where fungus, squid, art, and madness blur fact and fiction.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: madmen · saints · artists · historians · academics · missionaries · authors · lovers · squidologists · merchants · politicians · narrators as characters · unreliable historians · obsessive characters · delusional characters · outsiders
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1699
A first-person barrage of absurd, hyper-referential vignettes where plot yields to wordplay, satire, and manic invention.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: anonymous narrator · unstable identity · hyperactive mind · absurdist persona · antiheroic voice · irreverent voice · satirical persona · transgressive persona · unreliable voice
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1861
Three apparently separate lives in London and a surreal castle edge toward a strange, unsettling convergence.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young artist · art student · paranoid man · delusional outsider · road worker · labourer · warrior · prisoner · female prisoner · enigmatic woman · aloof love interest · eccentric friend · impulsive · passive · obsessive · weak-willed · paranoid · mentally ill · bitter · irascible · naive · unreliable perception · morally ambiguous
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1906
In a crowded future, a suspicious heir crosses space to test a one-way colony’s promise of paradise.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: paranoid protagonist · neurotic hero · investigator · anti-hero · corporate executive · mercenary figure · creditor pressure · obsessive seeker · hallucinating protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1924
A jealous art student uses mind-linking technology to stay close to her gifted friend in a near-future class-divided world.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unlikable protagonist · obsessive narrator · tortured artist · art prodigy · ambitious striver · morally ambiguous · ruthless · insecure · envious · codependent · compelling narrator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1976
A split-narrative Scottish novel follows an artist’s life and his uncanny alter self through Glasgow and a hellish parallel city.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young man · artist · bohemian · intellectual · self-absorbed · neurotic · alienated · asthmatic · unlikeable protagonist · wannabe artist · madness · dream-self
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1984
An oversized, heavily annotated selection of Lovecraft’s key horror tales, with context, images, and scholarly notes.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: obsessive narrator · bookish protagonist · investigator · scholar · antiquarian · amateur researcher · madness-prone characters · ordinary person confronting the uncanny
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1990
An unnamed narrator pursues a fragile woman through a collapsing, ice-choked world where reality keeps slipping away.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed narrator · unreliable narrator · obsessive narrator · controlling men · violent rival · fragile woman · victimized woman · abusive men · psychological instability · hallucinatory mind · nameless characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1992
A self-divided writer chases a pink-light revelation into Gnostic theology, madness, and the meaning of reality.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: schizophrenic protagonist · autobiographical narrator · alter ego · author-protagonist · intellectual protagonist · paranoid thinker · self-divided character · religious seeker · mad genius
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2005
A crash survivor falls into a taboo subculture where car wrecks, sex, and technology become one obsessive fixation.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: obsessive narrator · amoral characters · damaged people · fetishistic characters · voyeur · detached narrator · cynical characters · scarred bodies
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2027
A collection of Lovecraft-associated horror revisions and collaborations featuring museums, ancient horrors, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: naive protagonist · skeptical narrator · mad scientist · mad curator · obsessive collector · insane artist · mummy-like figure · revenge-driven character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2076
