Horror: Domestic/Family Body Horror - Echoes in the Bone

Echoes in the Bone: Skeletal whispers from the past that reshape the present into terror.

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

Parent and child, Robert and Nicole, grapple with an inherited skeletal curse that reshapes their bones to mimic dead ancestors, forcing them to shatter denial and rituals or be forever entrapped in the family's osseous chain.

✨ Genre: Domestic / Family Body Horror

✨ Tropes/Themes: Inherited Condition or Secret, Family Denial, Ritualized Coping Mechanisms, Body as Family Property, Generational Entrapment, Breaking the Line—or Becoming It, Bone Reconfiguration, Ancestral Hauntings

✨ POV & Structure: 1st Person Past Tense Dual POV, 4-Act structure building from subtle anomalies to full skeletal transformations and climactic breaks.

✨ Vibe: Chilling and introspective, with a heavy emphasis on bone-crunching horror and the slow erosion of sanity through familial legacies. The vibe is one of inescapable fate, laced with visceral pain and no romantic undertones.

✨ Book Size: Novel (60,000-100,000 words)

✨ Chapter Count: 42 Chapters

✨ Word Count: target 1800-2500 per chapter

✨ Heat Level: No Romance (plot-focused, no romantic elements)

What you get:

✅ Complete Premise with core concepts and Narrative Physics Architecture

✅ Complete Story Dossier — including detailed characters, relationship arcs, locations and objects, world rules and histories, multiple subplots, and market researched genre and style guides.

✅ A detailed 42 chapter outline.