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Hide and Don't Seek: And Other Very Scary Stories

Anica Mrose Rissi
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horror supernatural horror past tense third limited POV ~93 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

unsettling creepy mysterious

A dark horror. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Ends on an unresolved note.

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Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 50
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 40%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 0%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count23,197
Page count~93 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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