Horror: Medical/Clinical Body Horror - Dermic Eclipse

Dermic Eclipse: Shadows beneath the skin that devour from within.

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

Turning to an avant-garde LA clinic for her vitiligo treatment, Jordan Hayes uncovers that the experimental pigment therapy awakens a darkness within her skin, causing it to consume itself and her sanity in a inexorable void.

✨ Genre: Medical / Clinical Body Horror

✨ Tropes/Themes: Experimental Treatment Gone Wrong, Doctor Knows Best, Symptoms That Don’t Match the Charts, Clinical Detachment vs. Human Pain, Treatment Becomes Torture, Irreversible Diagnosis, Internal Erosion, Psychological Fragmentation

✨ POV & Structure: 1st Person, Past Tense, Single POV; 4-Act Structure.

✨ Vibe: Brooding and introspective horror, with vivid descriptions of internal decay building to visceral climaxes. The content vibes with existential dread, focusing on the erosion of identity in a sun-soaked yet shadowy LA. No romantic threads, it's a deep dive into solitary suffering and the macabre beauty of breakdown.

✨ Book Size: Short Novel (40,000-60,000 words)

✨ Chapter Count: 28 Chapters

✨ Word Count: target 1800-2200 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 28 chapter outline.