Horror: Transgressive - Corporate Veins

Corporate Veins: The Price of Progress in Human Currency

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

Pharmaceutical executive Nicole Pearson is tasked with testing a revolutionary drug on unwitting employees, but as side effects manifest in grotesque mutations, she must choose between corporate loyalty and halting the human cost that could end her career.

✨ Genre: Breaking Taboos Transgressive Horror

✨ Tropes/Themes: Reader Complicity, Provocative Premise, Forced Identification, Ethical Discomfort, Narrative Punishment, No Safe Distance, Ending That Accuses, Exploitative Experimentation

✨ POV & Structure: 1st Person Past Tense from a Single Unreliable Narrator, framed in a 4-Act arc that ramps from complicity to rebellion.

✨ Vibe: Cynically oppressive and ethically corrosive, depicting systemic cruelty with unflinching detail that fosters unease and indignation. The vibe is starkly corporate-dystopian, blending mundane evil with visceral violations to challenge reader detachment.

✨ 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.