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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories.

Characterization labels used: student, scholar, mathematician, protagonist as tool, passive protagonist, descent into madness, unreliable perception, inquisitive protagonist, outsider protagonist, human insignificance, racist characterization, white male characters

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Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft · 2016

A group of interconnected Lovecraft tales follows scholars and witnesses into cults, ruins, and cosmic dread.

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Characterization labels: scientists · historians · investigators · scholars · students · protagonist narrator · outsider protagonist · curious seeker · rational observer · doomed witness · alarmed witness · knowledge-driven · mentally shaken · insignificant humanity · repetitive character types · male protagonists · cultist figures · isolated scholar

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Distance: 0.1389

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Cover of Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft · 2017

A lavish collection of Lovecraft tales centered on forbidden knowledge, cosmic dread, and the Necronomicon mythos.

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Characterization labels: academic protagonists · isolated men · curious investigators · obsessive scholars · introverted characters · morally compromised protagonists · psychological unraveling · sanity erosion

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1437

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Cover of Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux

Strange Bodies

Marcel Theroux · 2013

A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.

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Characterization labels: academic protagonist · scholar protagonist · unlikable protagonist · inept hero · savant character · psychiatric patient · scientist character · brutish savant · bookish intellectual · self-pitying narrator · complex protagonist

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Distance: 0.1445

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The Expert of Subtle Revisions

Kirsten Menger-Anderson · 2025

A woman chasing her missing father is pulled into a dual-timeline mystery linking Wikipedia edits, Vienna academics, and time travel.

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Characterization labels: quirky protagonist · introverted protagonist · self-reliant protagonist · brilliant mathematician · closeted gay man · academics · intellectuals · unlikeable antagonist · complex villain · messy characters · flawed characters · highly educated characters · reclusive parent

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Distance: 0.1486

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Assassin of Reality

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2023 · Vita Nostra (English)

A gifted student returns to an eerie magical institute where language shapes reality and failure could remake the world.

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Characterization labels: stubborn protagonist · older protagonist · intellectual curiosity · transcendent being · ambitious student · alienated protagonist · dark mentor · fascinating protagonist · humanity vs concept

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1490

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Cover of Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins · 2004

A mixed-race medical student’s quest in Ethiopia uncovers hidden ancestry, a secret city, and a radical truth about race.

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Characterization labels: medical student · mixed-race protagonist · white-passing protagonist · evil friend · reprehensible men · one-dimensional characters · passive heroine · gentle hero · melancholic protagonist · mystic protagonist · ambiguous characters · classed Black elite · poor Black characters

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Distance: 0.1561

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Cover of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

Sofia Samatar · 2024

A boy lifted from a mining ship’s underclass and a professor from within the system uncover the chains binding them both.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: archetypal characters · unnamed protagonists · boy · woman · professor · prophet · mentor-mentee dynamic · artistic outsider · marginalized student · careerist academic · symbolic characters

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1562

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The Thing Itself

Adam Roberts · 2015

An Antarctic SETI disaster launches a cross-time chase into Kant, AI, and the limits of human reality.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · disfigured protagonist · alcoholic protagonist · unlikable protagonist · obsessed philosopher · surly character · practical character · AI character · shadowy institute · traumatized survivor

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Distance: 0.1628

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Cover of Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore

Bring the Jubilee

Ward Moore · 2001

In an alternate America where the Confederacy won, a bookish young historian is drawn toward a revelation that may reshape history.

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Characterization labels: bookish protagonist · self-taught scholar · passive hero · dreamer · coming of age · intellectual outsider · historian protagonist · unlikely protagonist · flawed women · eccentric intellectuals · philosophical characters

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Distance: 0.1634

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Cover of Homunculus (Omnibus), Vol. 1-2 by Hideo Yamamoto

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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Characterization labels: Unreliable protagonist · Morally ambiguous protagonist · Homeless protagonist · Socially alienated protagonist · Eccentric scientist · Shady medical student · Creepy antagonist · Unlikable protagonist · Compelling protagonist · Secretive protagonist

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Distance: 0.1654

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Taivas

Piia Leino · 2018

In a sealed future Helsinki, a numb researcher awakens through virtual reality and is pulled toward dangerous real-world feeling.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: apathetic protagonist · waking protagonist · researcher protagonist · strong female character · morally gray characters · insecure characters · possessive male character · passive male lead · ideological contrast · complex characters

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1663

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