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Annie Neugebauer

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Premise labels used: doppelganger horror, identity crisis, marriage stress test, relationship under pressure, trust no one, impostor dilemma, double replacement, nature isolation

Setting labels used: remote forest, hiking trail, camping trip, outdoor retreat, isolated wilderness, mountainous area, Oklahoma, outdoors horror, same-world continuity

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The Extra

Annie Neugebauer · 2025 · The Outsiders Sequence

On a wilderness backpacking trip, a leader counts one too many—yet everyone remembers the extra.

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Premise labels: extra person · identity mystery · memory anomaly · imposter puzzle · group paranoia · vanishing certainty · infiltration · unknown presence · camping trip

Setting labels: Arkansas · wilderness · woods · backpacking trip · camping trip · isolated setting · outdoors · remote trail · forest · night camp

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Distance: 0.1756

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The Murders of Molly Southbourne

Tade Thompson · 2017 · Molly Southbourne

A girl whose blood creates murderous doubles must survive her own body, her secrets, and the rules that keep her alive.

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Premise labels: doppelgänger horror · blood curse · self-hunting · survival · identity crisis · medical horror · biological anomaly

Setting labels: isolated farm · college · off-the-grid upbringing · small-scale domestic setting · body-horror reality

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Distance: 0.2158

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Briardark

S.A. Harian · 2023 · Briardark

A glacier expedition in a cursed wilderness unravels into vanishing bodies, warped time, and a second investigation.

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Premise labels: wilderness expedition · missing persons · scientific expedition · investigation · recovered evidence · cosmic threat · vanishing body · parallel inquiry · time anomaly · reality distortion

Setting labels: wilderness · forest · mountain · glacier · Pacific Northwest · western United States · remote wilderness · isolated cabin · academic field site · liminal space · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2573

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Hunted Past Reason

Richard Matheson · 2003

Two men on a wilderness research hike spiral into jealousy, fear, and a desperate fight for survival.

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Premise labels: wilderness survival · two-man conflict · manhunt · psychological escalation · research trip

Setting labels: northern California · wilderness · forest · remote cabin · national forest · isolated hike · outdoors

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Distance: 0.2577

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My Name Isn't Paul: A Cosmic Horror Novella

Drew Huff · 2025

An alien mimic living as a salesman unravels as his species’ breeding cycle forces a crisis of self and hunger.

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Premise labels: identity crisis · hidden identity · mimicry · alien among humans · human disguise · existential dread · body horror · reproductive horror

Setting labels: contemporary America · cross-country road trip · blue-collar America · human society · interdimensional beings · earth · liminal/alien reality

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Distance: 0.2596

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The Breach

Nick Cutter · 2020

A retiring Yukon police chief investigates a mutilated corpse and uncovers an isolated nightmare of bugs, secrets, and reality-bending science.

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Premise labels: police investigation · mutilated corpse · missing scientist · isolated wilderness · experiment gone wrong · mysterious machine · reality breach · insect infestation · cosmic horror · body horror

Setting labels: Yukon · wilderness · frigid woods · river setting · isolated house · reservation setting · remote rural setting · alternate dimensions · reality-bending space · claustrophobic setting

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Distance: 0.2611

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Under the Skin

Michel Faber · 2004

A lone woman drives Scottish roads picking up muscle-bound hitchhikers, but her routine hides a far stranger truth.

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Premise labels: hitchhiker pickup · predatory encounter · identity mystery · hidden nature · moral dilemma · humanity question · alien disguise · deceptive routine

Setting labels: Scottish Highlands · A9 · rural Scotland · highways · isolated farm · remote countryside · earthbound reality · speculative world

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Distance: 0.2653

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The Troop

Nick Cutter · 2014

A scout troop’s camping trip on an isolated island turns into a fight for survival when a ravenous, infected stranger arrives.

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Premise labels: island survival · contagion horror · body horror · wilderness camping · infected stranger · group isolation · young male group · parasite outbreak · siege situation

Setting labels: Canadian wilderness · isolated island · camping trip · remote island · eastern Canada · wilderness survival · contained setting · nature isolation

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Distance: 0.2726

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The Damned Thing

Ambrose Bierce · 2008

An inquest into a gruesome death in the woods turns on a witness’s account of an unseen, possibly impossible attacker.

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Premise labels: inquest · murder mystery · unseen threat · invisible monster · unknown cause · unreliable testimony · natural vs supernatural · fear of the unknown · limited perception · unnatural death · investigation · death in the woods

Setting labels: woods · cabin · night · remote setting · rural setting · inquest room · American setting · wilderness

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Distance: 0.2733

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Thin Air

Rachel Caine · 2007 · Weather Warden

An amnesiac weather warden must recover her identity while a demon steals her life and factions turn against her.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity recovery · evil twin · memory theft · demon impersonation · weather control · Djinn conflict · power awakening

Setting labels: urban fantasy world · forest · winter storm · frozen wilderness · Earth Oracle politics · apocalyptic crisis · American geography

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Distance: 0.2739

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Sublimation

Isabel J. Kim · 2026

When border-crossing splits immigrants into two selves, one woman must face her other life before someone steals it.

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Premise labels: doppelgänger self · split self · border crossing · immigration · alternate life · identity conflict · reintegration · corporate intrigue · techno-thriller

Setting labels: alternate reality · Earth-adjacent world · Korea · South Korea · Seoul · America · United States · New York · border crossings · diaspora world · historical worldbuilding

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Distance: 0.2740

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The Bleeding Woods

Brittany Amara · 2025

A guilt-ridden young woman’s road trip turns deadly when a haunted forest, hidden powers, and an obsessed stranger collide.

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Premise labels: dangerous powers · hidden nature · estranged family · haunted forest · stranded group · vicious murders · shared past · telepathic bond · obsessive pursuit · humanity vs monster · medical suppression · scientific secrets · family trauma

Setting labels: Appalachian Mountains · forest setting · haunted forest · isolated woods · Blackstone Forest · lab setting · countryside · road trip

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Distance: 0.2746

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