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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for The Sleep Experiment. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Tone labels used: dark, creepy, horrifying, disturbing, unsettling, gruesome, chilling, tense, nightmarish
Premise labels used: sleep deprivation experiment, forbidden experiment, scientific hubris, mad scientist, psychological breakdown, ethics of science, urban legend retelling
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone + premise embeddings are close.
A scientist’s matter-transmission experiment goes horribly wrong, and a murder confession hides the reason.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · horror · suspenseful · tense · unnerving · tragic · nightmarish · twisted · mysterious · eerie
Premise labels: scientist gone wrong · matter transmission · forbidden experiment · murder mystery · body transformation · scientific hubris
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1339
A scientist’s device opens perception to hidden planes of existence, drawing him and his friend into terror.
Why this is here
Tone labels: eerie · creepy · atmospheric · dreadful · intense · sinister · hallucinatory · anxious · gothic
Premise labels: mad scientist · limited senses · alternate perception · hidden reality · interdimensional horror · forbidden knowledge · scientific hubris · experimental machine · cosmic terror
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1583
An engineer is drawn into a secret coastal experiment probing life after death, with unsettling ethical consequences.
Why this is here
Tone labels: chilling · eerie · uncanny · dark · moody · spooky · unsettling · bleak · philosophical
Premise labels: mad science · life after death · scientific ethics · secret experiment · metaphysical inquiry · mad scientist
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1655
An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · unsettling · creepy · horrifying · philosophical · thought-provoking · melancholic · tense · claustrophobic · disturbing · emotional · haunting · oddly tender
Premise labels: experimental rejuvenation · cloning · identity crisis · human experimentation · ethical dilemma · body swap · immortality quest · aging · transhumanism · medical experiment · life extension · double self
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1662
A respectable lawyer investigates a sinister connection between a doctor and his violent secret alter ego.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · dark · gloomy · tense · sinister · macabre · unnerving · chilling · oppressive · shocking · suspenseful
Premise labels: dual identity · doppelgänger · split self · secret alter ego · mad scientist · self-experimentation · good vs evil · inner darkness · repressed desires
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1688
An obsessed medical student pursues corpse reanimation, and his assistant watches the experiments spiral into terror.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · grotesque · morbid · morbidly funny · campy · chilling · disturbing · macabre · pulpy · grim · shocking · unsettling
Premise labels: reanimation · defying death · fresh corpses · scientific experiments · mad scientist · secret formula · medical experimentation · grave robbing · experiment gone wrong · scientific horror
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1700
A faux-historical biography and illustrated atlas follow a doctor whose obsession with mythic anatomy leads him into madness.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · macabre · creepy · grotesque · disturbing · haunting · morbid · gothic · wonder and unease
Premise labels: mad scientist · fictional biography · alternate history · forged manuscript · lost work · mythical anatomy · evolutionary theory · body transformation · grave robbing · scientific obsession
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1707
A fugitive young woman hides in a Scottish manor where gothic secrets, mad science, and family legacy collide.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · gothic · creepy · chilling · suspenseful · morbid · atmospheric · brooding · bittersweet · tragic · twisted · tense · emotional · thrilling · macabre
Premise labels: mad science · forbidden experiment · play God · life and death · family legacy · inheritance of madness · safe haven with secrets · manor mystery · haunted estate · scientific experimentation · reanimation · moral dilemma
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1736
A shipwreck survivor lands on a remote island where a disgraced scientist is reshaping animals into humanlike beings.
Why this is here
Tone labels: ominous · gloomy · disturbing · horrific · creepy · unnerving · philosophical · thought-provoking · dark · subversive · grotesque · haunting
Premise labels: shipwreck survival · island isolation · mad scientist · animal experimentation · human-animal hybrids · vivisection · play God · science gone wrong · ethical science · survival ordeal · castaway story · moral experiment
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1755
Four long horror novellas turn ordinary travel, writing, libraries, and photography into nightmares as reality starts to fracture.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · eerie · tense · suspenseful · claustrophobic · unsettling · nightmarish · grotesque · psychological · fun (mixed) · cheesy (mixed)
Premise labels: reality fracture · alternate reality · midnight threshold · dangerous liminal moment · ordinary life disrupted
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1764
A wrongly convicted man chooses a secret one-year program over prison, only to enter a torture-driven transformation.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · disturbing · horrific · gripping · uncomfortable · psychological · sinister · claustrophobic · tense · cold · macabre
Premise labels: wrongly convicted prisoner · experimental punishment · torture device · body transformation · redemption choice · secret program · state punishment · scientific experiment · metaphysical transformation · origin story
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1776
A mother and detective race to protect a traumatized girl whose kidnapping led to brutal experiments and a terrifying unseen force.
Why this is here
Tone labels: eerie · dark · creepy · tense · suspenseful · grim · gory · disturbing · emotionally stirring (mixed) · uneasy
Premise labels: missing child · abduction aftermath · traumatized child · paranormal investigation · unethical experiment · catatonia · sensory deprivation · mind control · mother-daughter reunion · murder mystery
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1778
