Horror: Medical/Clinical Body Horror - Epidermis Unbound

Epidermis Unbound: When a celebrity cure turns skin into a living nightmare.

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

Desperate for flawless skin to salvage her fading acting career, Taylor Smith undergoes an experimental celebrity treatment in LA, only to watch her body rebel in grotesque mutations that threaten to consume her entirely.

✨ 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, Celebrity Vanity, Mutating Flesh

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

✨ Vibe: Dark and visceral, with escalating dread as physical transformations evoke revulsion and helplessness. The story delves into graphic body horror without romantic distractions, emphasizing isolation and the horror of losing bodily autonomy. High gore and psychological anguish create a claustrophobic atmosphere of inevitable decline.

✨ 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.