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Books like The Shadow of the Torturer 1980
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About The Shadow of the Torturer
Books closest to The Shadow of the Torturer
Shadow & Claw 1983Also grave, bleak and contemplative
Soldier of the Mist 1986Also grave and contemplative
The Fifth Head Of Cerberus 1972Also grave, contemplative and bleak
Gormenghast 1950Also grave, contemplative and bleak
The claw of the conciliator 1981Also grave and contemplative
Viriconium 2005Also grave and contemplative
Lake of the long sun 1994Also grave and contemplative
The Gormenghast novels 1995Also grave, contemplative and bleak
The Buried Giant 2001Also grave, earnest and contemplative
The Citadel of the Autarch 1982Also grave and contemplative
The Sword of the Lictor 1981Also grave, earnest and contemplative
House of Government 2017Also grave, earnest and bleak
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- Infernal 2018Also grave and earnest
- A Feast of Consequences 2013Also grave and earnest
- March of Ghosts 2012Also grave and earnest
Games
Midwinter 1989Also grave and earnest
Helix: Descent N Ascent 2026Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Films
Blade Runner 1982Also grave, contemplative and bleak
Byzantium 2013Also grave, earnest and contemplative
The Name of the Rose 1986Also grave and contemplative
Series
Wolf Hall 2015Also grave and earnest
MINDHUNTER 2017Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 2015Also grave
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