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The Creeping Shadow

Stroud, Jonathan
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fantasy urban fantasy past tense first POV ~452 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense gothic paranoid

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 90
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 85
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count112,971
Page count~452 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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