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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Lurker at the Threshold.
Setting labels used: New England, Massachusetts, Arkham, Dunwich, rural estate, haunted house, forest, woods, old mansion, fictional town, cosmic reality
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A surveyor hears how a rural farm was slowly blighted by a meteorite carrying an indescribable alien color.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Massachusetts · New England farm · Arkham · reservoir site · isolated countryside · witch-haunted town · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1093
A surveyor uncovers the buried history of a farm ruined by a meteorite and a color no one can explain.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Arkham · New England · Massachusetts · rural farm · isolated valley · wooded heath · local folklore · fictional town · gothic countryside · contaminated landscape · small-town setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1459
A math student renting a cursed room in Arkham is drawn into witchcraft, nightmares, and interdimensional terror.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Arkham · New England · college town · haunted house · Salem witch-trial era backstory · alternate dimensions · dream world · fictional town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1482
A modern graphic adaptation of Lovecraftian horror where a small town faces an occult, otherworldly threat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural New England · small town · isolated farmhouse · early 20th century · fictional horror world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1925
A chronological anthology of Lovecraft Mythos tales by Lovecraft and later writers, tracing cosmic horror across decades.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New England · academic setting · small town · cosmic horror world · 20th century · future setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2127
Three dead teens return home to a magical bargain, only to confront the mystery of their deaths and a townwide supernatural crisis.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small seaside town · New England · Massachusetts · present day · small-town America · high school classroom · underworld · alternate reality · liminal afterlife
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2244
A traumatized plane-crash survivor begins seeing visions and uncovers a supernatural mystery tied to two boys and her own identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · small town · Camden, Maine · Michigan · Portsmouth, New Hampshire · library setting · road trip · secretive supernatural world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2286
A DHS paranormal investigator hunts a secret-made giant monster before it reaches Boston and triggers a military catastrophe.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · modern world · Maine · Boston · New England · United States · wilderness · small towns · cities · secret research facility · backwoods · government offices · real-world setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2325
An ex-convict inherits a strange house and uncovers a layered web of magic, identity shifts, and hidden truths.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · American Midwest · small town · motel · abandoned house · old mansion · haunted house · ordinary town with supernatural intrusions · border between reality and faerie · modern-day magical reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2349
A mysterious nude stranger enters a repressed small town and awakens shocking transformations through sex, love, and faith.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · New England · Catskills · rural America · contemporary setting · mystical realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2373
A fearless teen and a drifting young woman are swept into a Boston chase where modern danger collides with ancient gods.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern Boston · urban fantasy · contemporary setting · hidden world · ancient underworld · mythic reality · old gods · modern-day mythology · New England
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2386
In a fly-ravaged near future, three survivors follow separate quests that may reveal how to save what remains.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · rural New England · New England woods · small-town isolation · farmhouse setting · abandoned cinema · movie theatre setting · post-pandemic world · science-fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2420
