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Books like Shutter Island 2003
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 Shutter Island
Books closest to Shutter Island
Mirrorland 2021Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Deliverance 1970Also grave, earnest and classical in form
The sundial 1958Also grave, bleak and classical in form
The Island of Dr. Moreau 1896Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Cabal 1988Also grave, bleak and earnest
Nightflyers 1985Also grave, intimate and earnest
Le coup de lune 1933Also grave, classical in form and earnest
The lake of dead languages 2002Also grave, earnest and bleak
Hell House 1971Also grave, intimate and bleak
We Who Are About To... 1977Also grave, intimate and bleak
The North water 2016Also grave, classical in form and earnest
Japanese Gothic 2026Also grave, bleak and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Films
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010Also grave, bleak and earnest
Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek 2004Also grave, earnest and bleak
The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain 2008Also grave, bleak and earnest
Series
The Woman in the Wall 2023Also grave, earnest and classical in form
BLOOD-C 2011Also grave, bleak and earnest
And Then There Were None 2015Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Games
Inmost 2019Also grave, bleak and earnest
Thy Creature 2022Also grave, earnest and bleak
The Initiate 2: The First Interviews 2018Also grave, bleak and earnest
Albums
- Bewitching the Pomerania 1997Also grave, bleak and earnest
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