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Dean Koontz

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Premise labels used: mind control, false memories, phobia outbreak, psychiatric manipulation, brainwashing, subconscious control, mysterious illness, ordinary couple under threat

Setting labels used: contemporary, urban domestic, therapist office, medicalized setting, real-world setting, psychological realism, small-circle social world

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The Immortal Hulk, Vol. 7: Hulk is Hulk

Al Ewing · 2020 · The Immortal Hulk (Collected Editions)

A memory-warping impostor turns the world against Hulk, forcing Bruce Banner to fight for his identity from inside his own mind.

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Premise labels: identity conflict · memory manipulation · false memory · mind control · villain impersonation · hero replacement · corporate conspiracy · body horror

Setting labels: superhero universe · Marvel universe · corporate setting · media/public sphere · internal mindscape · psychological space

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The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall · 2007

An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · identity search · conceptual predator · quest for truth · grief recovery

Setting labels: contemporary setting · urban spaces · un-space · conceptual world · material reality · mental landscape

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Distance: 0.2054

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Ces jours qui disparaissent

Timothé Le Boucher · 2017

After losing every other day to a hidden double self, a young acrobat fights to keep his own life from disappearing.

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Premise labels: lost time · alter ego · dual identity · body sharing · identity conflict · time slip · memory gaps · possessed body · fight for control · self replacement · life under threat

Setting labels: contemporary · everyday life · workplace · friend group · family circle · performance world · acrobatic setting

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Distance: 0.2129

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Forgotten

Cat Patrick · 2011 · Forgotten

A teen who forgets each day but sees the future must navigate love, secrets, and a dark mystery.

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Premise labels: memory loss · future memories · notes to self · hidden condition · romantic complication · family secrets · mystery hook

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · suburban family life · school scenes · home scenes · teen social world · modern day · psychological realism

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Eight O'Clock in the Morning

Ray Faraday Nelson · 1963

A man who fully wakes from hypnosis sees hidden manipulators controlling society and must decide how to respond.

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Premise labels: awakening · hidden truth · alien infiltration · mind control · subliminal control · conspiracy · secret society · resistance

Setting labels: contemporary society · urban public spaces · media-saturated world · Earth · present-day realism · alien-in-disguise reality

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Glitch

Heather Anastasiu · 2012 · Glitch

In an emotionless underground society, a glitching teen hides forbidden powers while risking deactivation and rebellion.

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Premise labels: mind control · emotion suppression · individual awakening · teen resistance · secret powers · hidden anomaly · controlled society · forbidden feelings

Setting labels: underground city · post-apocalyptic · post-nuclear · futuristic · controlled society · surface world · dystopian future · technological reality · laboratory reproduction · cybernetic setting

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Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder · 2023

Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · pandemic aftermath · body mutation · apocalypse · survival · queer awakening · brain hunger · murder compulsion · chronic illness · eldritch influence · world collapse

Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality

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Distance: 0.2178

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The Coma

Alex Garland · 2004

After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.

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Premise labels: coma · amnesia · altered consciousness · dream state · identity loss · wake-up quest · psychological mystery · reality distortion · subconscious journey · survival

Setting labels: London Underground · hospital · home · urban setting · dreamscape · inner mental world · liminal state · contemporary setting

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Homunculus (Omnibus), Vol. 1-2

Hideo Yamamoto · 2023 · Homunculus Omnibus

A homeless man joins a skull-drilling experiment and starts seeing people’s hidden inner selves as grotesque forms.

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Premise labels: Trepanation experiment · Sixth sense · Subconscious vision · Hidden inner self · Psychological trauma · Homunculi

Setting labels: Urban contemporary · Homelessness · Car dwelling · Medical experiment · Psychological reality · Supernatural reality

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Distance: 0.2186

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K-Pax

Gene Brewer · 1995 · K-Pax

A psychiatrist records sessions with a patient who claims to be an alien from K-PAX, and the truth stays uncertain.

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Premise labels: alien claim · psychiatric patient · identity mystery · delusion or reality · utopian world · therapeutic inquiry · human-alien encounter · mysterious abilities

Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · New York City · Manhattan · contemporary setting · outer space · alien world · utopian planet · single-site setting

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Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Two Worlds, One Cop

Matt Fraction · 2015 · Sex Criminals

A time-stopping sex-powered couple faces relationship strain, mental health struggles, and a widening secret world.

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Premise labels: time-stopping sex · relationship crisis · bank robbery · sexual powers · secret abilities · fugitive lovers · sex police conflict · saving a library · adult relationship

Setting labels: contemporary · fictionalized reality · time travel · secret world · adult life · therapy setting · library setting

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The Last Conversation

Paul Tremblay · 2019

An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity crisis · memory loss · consciousness · caregiver mystery · white room mystery · clone identity · replica dilemma · post-apocalyptic recovery · lab recovery

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting

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