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Tone labels used: dense, self-indulgent, playful, dark, satirical, erudite, confounding, brilliant, psychedelic, disturbing, irreverent

Premise labels used: secret dossier, found manuscript, rival agents, historical secrets, hidden history, literary crossover, spy chase, sourcebook

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The Secret History of Twin Peaks

Mark Frost · 2016 · Twin Peaks

An in-universe dossier uncovers Twin Peaks’ hidden history through documents, notes, and conspiracy-laced evidence.

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Tone labels: mysterious · gloomy · quirky · creepy · esoteric · intriguing · dense · dreamlike · nostalgic · paranoid · otherworldly

Premise labels: secret history · town mystery · conspiracy web · archival investigation · mythology expansion · gap filler · bridge novel · in-universe dossier · investigative file · occult history

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Distance: 0.1965

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson · 1983 · Illuminatus!

A bombed magazine, a missing editor, and a labyrinth of conspiracies pull a detective into a reality-bending investigation.

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Tone labels: satirical · irreverent · paranoid · psychedelic · absurdist · comic · darkly funny · playful · mind-bending

Premise labels: secret society · conspiracy investigation · missing editor · detective investigation · alternate history · mind expansion · world-spanning conspiracy

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Distance: 0.1979

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Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology

Warren Ellis · 2010 · Planetary

A mystery-obsessed super-team uncovers hidden histories and faces a final conspiracy across Earth, time, and the multiverse.

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Tone labels: Wonder · Bizarre · Psychedelic · Epic · Cerebral · Serious · Wry · Darkly playful · Confusing · Satisfying

Premise labels: Mystery team · Secret history · Anomalous investigations · Paranormal archaeology · Superhuman activity · Conspiracy mystery · Artefact hunt · Hidden worlds · Final showdown

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Distance: 0.2119

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The Eye in the Pyramid

Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson · 1987 · Illuminatus!

A cynical New York detective stumbles into a sprawling, hallucinatory conspiracy that may link secret societies, sex, and power.

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Tone labels: satirical · witty · sardonic · absurd · playful · trippy · paranoid · raunchy · chaotic · irreverent

Premise labels: conspiracy investigation · secret society · detective inquiry · paranoid mystery · hidden power · end-of-the-world plot

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Distance: 0.2129

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The Fuller Memorandum

Charles Stross · 2010 · Laundry Files

A British occult spy must recover a vanished secret file while a mole, cults, and ancient horrors close in.

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Tone labels: wry · dry · dark · sardonic · funny · ominous · tense · grim · cynical · absurd

Premise labels: missing document · occult espionage · secret agency · world-ending threat · bureaucratic mission · cult conspiracy · supernatural containment · spycraft

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Distance: 0.2165

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The Big Time

Fritz Leiber · 2001 · Change War

A woman in a timeless rest station watches time-war soldiers arrive, then a sabotage crisis turns their refuge into a locked-room puzzle.

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Tone labels: witty · quirky · strange · surreal · playful · philosophical · disturbing · ironic · breezy · hard-edged · jokey

Premise labels: time war · temporal war · recovering soldiers · R&R station · outside time · outside space · history manipulation · memory alteration · parallel timelines · cosmic conflict · recuperation station · sabotaged safe haven · who did it mystery

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Distance: 0.2174

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The Hemingway Hoax

Joe Haldeman · 1991 · Stellar Guild

A Hemingway scholar’s forgery scheme spirals into a violent multiverse crisis, where every death opens another reality.

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Tone labels: dark · paranoid · absurd · comic · ghastly humor · existential terror · bizarre · witty · freaky · cerebral · violent · sexy · playful · surreal

Premise labels: literary forgery · missing manuscript · parallel universes · time travel · multiverse threat · ghostly visitation · academic protagonist · con artist scheme

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Distance: 0.2213

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La lega degli straordinari gentlemen: Century

Alan Moore · 2013 · The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Across 1910, 1969, and 2009, the League hunts an occult apocalypse plot while time, culture, and identity unravel.

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Tone labels: dense · ambitious · bizarre · surreal · bleak · provocative · polarizing · trippy · darkly playful · disorienting

Premise labels: century-spanning quest · apocalypse prevention · occult conspiracy · anti-Christ plot · investigation · time-spanning mission · shared-fiction universe

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Distance: 0.2228

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The Memory Hunters

Mia Tsai · 2025 · The Consecrated

A memory-diving scholar and her bodyguard uncover a truth that could upend their society, their careers, and their bond.

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Tone labels: propulsive · atmospheric · dark · thoughtful · mysterious · yearning · intense · dreamlike · trippy · uneasy

Premise labels: memory hunting · museum intrigue · academic intrigue · sapphic romance · bodyguard guardian · artifact ethics · historical revision · climate aftermath · ancient secret · truth seeking

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Declare

Tim Powers · 2002

A reactivated spy revisits a decades-old covert operation where Cold War tradecraft collides with hidden supernatural forces.

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Tone labels: dark · brooding · ominous · tense · eerie · plausible · gritty · scary · bitter-sweet · somber · conspiratorial · lyrical · witty · bracing · weird

Premise labels: spy mission · double agent · secret history · hidden supernatural war · Cold War espionage · occult conspiracy · unfinished operation · real-history overlay · mythic mystery · international intrigue

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Distance: 0.2237

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

Alan Moore · 1999 · The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Victorian literary antiheroes are recruited into a secret team to confront threats to Britain.

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Tone labels: dark · gory · rude · bleak · morbid · fun · playful · satirical · intense · gritty · eccentric

Premise labels: ensemble team · literary mashup · recruited specialists · secret mission · imperial threat · antihero team · public domain crossover · victorian adventure

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Distance: 0.2238

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Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson · 2002

A sprawling WWII-to-1990s tale of codebreaking, family legacy, hidden gold, and the birth of digital secrecy.

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Tone labels: paranoid · wry · humorous · sardonic · playful · intellectual · earnest · hyperbolic · quirky · dark

Premise labels: codebreaking · cryptography · dual timeline · family legacy · treasure hunt · data haven · information age · war secrecy · hidden gold

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Distance: 0.2248

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