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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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Premise labels used: isolated community, volcanic disaster, creature attack, survival crisis, legendary creature, eco-community, cut off from civilization, massacre investigation, documentary framing

Setting labels used: Pacific Northwest, Washington State, Mount Rainier, wilderness, isolated settlement, eco-community, smart homes, off-grid living, post-eruption landscape, forest setting, national park setting, near Seattle

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The Unfamiliar Garden

Benjamin Percy · 2022 · The Comet Cycle

After a meteor-scarred drought ends, an estranged detective and biologist uncover an alien fungal outbreak tied to a child’s disappearance.

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Premise labels: meteor fallout · alien fungus · missing child · serial murders · government conspiracy · drought and rain · family breakup · eco catastrophe · infectious outbreak · investigative duo

Setting labels: Seattle · Pacific Northwest · Puget Sound · rainforest · woods · forest · near future · post-apocalyptic world · shared universe · meteor-shifted ecology

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Dies the Fire

S.M. Stirling · 2005 · Emberverse

After a global tech collapse, survivors in the Pacific Northwest rebuild through survival skills, clans, and new power struggles.

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Premise labels: civilization collapse · technology failure · post-collapse survival · survival communities · new feudalism

Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Idaho · contemporary world · post-apocalyptic world · technologically regressed world · medieval-like society

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Distance: 0.2411

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The China Pandemic

A.R. Shaw · 2013 · Graham's Resolution

After a deadly pandemic, an immune survivor leads a fragile group toward safety while preppers, danger, and loss close in.

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Premise labels: pandemic survival · global collapse · immune survivors · carrier status · prepper communities · found family · protect the child · journey to cabin · small-group survival

Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Washington state · Seattle · cabin in the woods · isolated cabin · post-apocalyptic world · depopulated world · collapsed civilization

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Distance: 0.2419

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Girl in the Creek

Wendy N. Wagner · 2025

A freelance writer chasing her brother’s disappearance uncovers a forest-bound fungal terror in an Oregon town.

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Premise labels: missing persons · forest horror · fungal horror · eco-horror · body horror · mystery investigation · brother disappearance · small-town secrets · alien intelligence · morgue disappearance

Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Clackamas National Forest · Mt. Hood · small town · ruined hotel · abandoned mines · forest edge · mining town · wilderness

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Distance: 0.2451

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Arboreality

Rebecca Campbell · 2022

Linked stories follow a Vancouver Island community as climate collapse forces them to salvage books, grow food, and remake life.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · ecological collapse · community survival · adaptation · resilience · resource scarcity · knowledge preservation · art under pressure · living architecture · intergenerational survival · local resilience · post-apocalypse

Setting labels: Vancouver Island · British Columbia · Canada · West Coast Canada · Pacific Northwest · Cowichan Valley · near future · late 21st century · early 22nd century · post-pandemic · post-collapse · isolated community · small town · suburb · flooded infrastructure · climate-ravaged future · partially globalized future · space-age backdrop

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Claw

Katie Berry · 2019 · Claw

After an earthquake awakens a deadly prehistoric beast in fog-shrouded British Columbia, a conservation officer must stop it and the corrupt people behind it.

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Premise labels: monster attack · prehistoric predator · earthquake aftermath · hidden threat · small-town peril · corruption · hunt and contain · survival against beast

Setting labels: British Columbia · small mountain town · wilderness · mountains · foggy setting · modern day · Canadian setting · glacier · cave · isolated town · weather-driven atmosphere