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Themes labels used: love, obsession, scientific ethics, good and evil, beauty and corruption, nature versus science, hubris, morality, power, gender issues, sacrifice, innocence, control, appearances versus reality, original sin, fall from grace, medical ethics

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Veniss Underground

Jeff Vandermeer · 2005

A failed artist’s search for a missing loved one leads into a decadent future city’s bioengineered underground nightmare.

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Themes labels: love · memory · obsession · art · creation · identity · humanity · inhumanity · transformation · biotechnology · genetic manipulation · ethical decay · power · collapse · civilizational decline · environmental ruin · class inequality · mortality · ambition · perfection · technology and ethics · nature vs artificial · life and death · desire · loss

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The Birth-Mark

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1843

A scientist fixates on his wife’s small facial birthmark and tries to remove it, with tragic consequences.

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Themes labels: perfection · imperfection · vanity · beauty standards · science vs nature · human hubris · mortality · sin · mortality and decay · marital control · consent · self-worth · acceptance · ethical experimentation · human flaw · pride · beauty vs inner worth

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Vicious

V.E. Schwab, Victoria Schwab · 2013 · Villains

Two brilliant college rivals test a theory about near-death powers, then spend years hunting each other for revenge.

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Themes labels: morality · good and evil · power corrupts · ambition · jealousy · desire · revenge · betrayal · loss · identity · perspective · faith · science vs divinity · justice · heroism · villainy · corruption · obsession · self-interest

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The Master Mind of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1962 · Barsoom

An injured WWI soldier reaches Mars, falls under a brain-swap scientist, and races to restore a loved one’s body.

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Themes labels: identity · mind and body · ethics of science · morality · science vs belief · religious fanaticism · fundamentalism · war and trauma · love vs appearance · power and cruelty

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The Diabolic

S.J. Kincaid · 2016 · The Diabolic

A genetically engineered bodyguard impersonates her charge at a corrupt imperial court to keep her safe—and survive.

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Themes labels: humanity · nature versus nurture · identity · selfhood · loyalty · power · politics · rebellion · science versus faith · knowledge suppression · moral conflict · free will · sacrifice · love and duty · human worth

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Cover of Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth by Alan Moore

Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth

Alan Moore · 2002 · Swamp Thing (1982) (Collected Editions)

Abby is persecuted for her relationship with Swamp Thing, and his rescue of her spirals into Gotham-wide upheaval.

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Themes labels: sexual morality · social persecution · bigotry · love and loss · humanity · nature vs civilization · environmentalism · public shaming · grief · abuse · justice system · law vs morality · identity · alienation · rage and restraint · taboo love · consequences · power and responsibility · acceptance

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Ice Hunt

James Rollins · 2007

An Arctic rescue pulls an outsider into a covert battle over a buried ice station, lethal secrets, and creatures in the ice.

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Themes labels: ethics · human experimentation · secrecy · survival · revenge · redemption · dehumanization · trust · science and morality · government power · national rivalry · past sins · loyalty · greed · nature versus humanity

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Night's Master

Tanith Lee · 1978 · Tales from the Flat Earth

A demon prince toys with mortals across a mythic flat-earth world in linked dark fairy tales.

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Themes labels: desire · power · beauty · cruelty · revenge · vanity · greed · love · hate · corruption · fatalism · mortality · suffering · morality · gender · sexuality · hubris · loss of innocence · balance of light and dark · human frailty

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

Sergio A. Sierra · 2012

A dark graphic adaptation of Frankenstein follows a scientist’s fatal experiment and the abandoned creature it unleashes.

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Themes labels: responsibility · ambition · scientific ethics · humanity · rejection · loneliness · compassion · identity · nature vs science · knowledge and consequence · grief · guilt · revenge · alienation · morality

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Cover of Her Dark Curiosity by Megan Shepherd

Her Dark Curiosity

Megan Shepherd · 2014 · The Madman’s Daughter

Back in Victorian London, Juliet races to stop a serial killer, cure her worsening illness, and resist her own darkness.

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Themes labels: good and evil · darkness and light · morality of science · science and ethics · hidden nature · identity · self-reconciliation · madness · inheritance · choice versus nature · humanity · redemption · secrets · betrayal · guilt · obsession · female agency · social respectability · class constraint

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Mastermind

Andrew Mayne · 2021 · Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood

A black-ops blackout in Manhattan pulls two brilliant rivals into a globe-spanning hunt for a mastermind.

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Themes labels: good vs evil · trust · control · manipulation · power · corruption · conspiracy · scientific ethics · government secrecy · interagency conflict · identity · healing · moral ambiguity · obsession

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Cover of Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley · 2013

A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics of science · hubris · responsibility · othering · isolation · loneliness · rejection · prejudice · ambition · good and evil · monstrosity · social influence · knowledge and consequences · mourning · revenge · identity · acceptance · nature of evil

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