Horror: Transgressive - Devoured Secrets

Devoured Secrets: A Hunger That Consumes the Soul and Betrays the Mind

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

When Alex Thompson discovers a family recipe that awakens an insatiable hunger for human flesh, he must suppress his urges to maintain his facade of normalcy, but societal isolation and inner cravings threaten to expose his cannibalistic secret to a world that would destroy him.

✨ Genre: Breaking Taboos Transgressive Horror

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

✨ POV & Structure: 1st Person Past Tense from a Single Unreliable Narrator, structured in a 4-Act progression that builds dread through escalating revelations.

✨ Vibe: Darkly introspective and viscerally disturbing, plunging readers into moral ambiguity with graphic depictions of forbidden acts that force empathy with the monstrous. The vibe is unrelentingly bleak, emphasizing psychological erosion without any redemptive light, pushing boundaries of human depravity.

✨ 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.