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Lincoln Child2017

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  • Alison Hewitt Is Trapped

    Madeleine Roux2011

    A woman and her coworkers barricade themselves inside a bookstore during a zombie outbreak. She records the survival effort in a blog.

    Same propulsive register, still horror

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Denser prose

propulsive → dreamlike

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  • Racconti [55 stories]

    Edgar Allan Poe2011

    A collection of 55 stories featuring unreliable narrators and gothic settings. Themes include obsession, premature burial, and the macabre.

    propulsive → dreamlike, still horror

    pace-1·prose+3·bleak+1

  • Ghost Stories

    Henry James2001

    A collection of Victorian tales where the existence of ghosts is often left to the reader's interpretation.

    propulsive → meditative

    pace-1·prose+3·bleak+1

  • Android Karenina

    Лев Толстой2010

    The text of Tolstoy's classic is modified to include robots, cyborgs, and space travel in a 19th-century Russian setting.

    propulsive → elegiac, still horror

    pace-1·prose+3·bleak+2

To recover

Same propulsive register

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  • Moneyball

    Michael Lewis2003

    The Oakland A's general manager uses statistical analysis to build a competitive baseball team on a budget. It follows the 2002 season.

    propulsive → wry

    pace0·prose+1·bleak-1

  • This Man

    Jodi Ellen Malpas2013

    An interior designer begins an affair with a wealthy client who demands total control over her life and schedule.

    propulsive → tense

    pace0·prose0·bleak-1

  • Real Murders

    Charlaine Harris1990

    A librarian in a small Georgia town belongs to a club that studies famous crimes. A real murder occurs that mimics a historical case.

    propulsive → wry

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Faster

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  • Desperation

    Stephen King1996

    A demonic entity possesses a small-town sheriff and begins slaughtering travelers. A young boy who hears God leads the survivors.

    propulsive → bleak, still horror

    pace+1·prose+1·bleak+2

  • The Burning Side

    Sarah Damoff

    propulsive → tense, still horror

    pace+1·prose+2·bleak+2

  • The Rats

    James Herbert1974

    Giant, man-eating rats overrun London, attacking citizens in homes and subways. The story follows the escalating biological disaster.

    Same propulsive register, still horror

    pace+1·prose+1·bleak+1

Slower

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  • Ulysses

    James Joyce1914

    Three characters wander through Dublin on a single day in 1904. Each chapter uses a different literary style to mimic thoughts and sensations.

    propulsive → playful

    pace-2·prose+3·bleak0

  • Absalom, Absalom!

    William Faulkner1936

    The rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen is recounted through multiple, conflicting memories. The prose uses extremely long, complex sentences.

    propulsive → elegiac

    pace-2·prose+3·bleak+2

  • Either/Or

    Søren Kierkegaard1992

    A collection of papers presents two life philosophies: the aesthetic pursuit of pleasure and the ethical commitment to duty.

    propulsive → meditative

    pace-2·prose+3·bleak0

Heavier

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  • The Burning Side

    Sarah Damoff

    propulsive → tense, still horror

    pace+1·prose+2·bleak+2

  • Mapping the Interior

    Stephen Graham Jones2017

    A teenager follows a figure resembling his dead father into the hidden spaces of his home. He maps a shifting, dangerous interior.

    propulsive → elegiac, still horror

    pace0·prose+2·bleak+2

  • Flowers in the Attic

    V.C. Andrews1979

    Four children are hidden in an attic for years by their mother and grandmother to secure an inheritance. They face gradual poisoning and abuse.

    propulsive → elegiac, still horror

    pace0·prose+1·bleak+2