[
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Victorian manor on a hill with boarded windows and creeping ivy at twilight",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Victorian manor on a hill with boarded windows and creeping ivy at twilight",
            "Long gravel drive leading to a sagging porch",
            "Wind-blown curtains visible through cracks",
            "A solitary raven perched on a finial",
            "Faint outline of furniture through fogged glass"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Front door slowly creaks open by unseen force",
            "Shadows pooling in corners like spilled ink",
            "Loose shutters banging in intermittent gusts",
            "A single window suddenly brightens then goes dark"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow crane from drive to porch with a jittering handheld approach at threshold",
        "accents": [
            "cold rim-lit mist around eaves to enhance silhouette",
            "moisture micro-highlights on peeling paint"
        ],
        "mood": "brooding suspense",
        "lighting": "cool twilight with a single warm interior flash",
        "style": "classic gothic tableau"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Boarded suburban bungalow with children's toys scattered and lawn overgrown",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Boarded suburban bungalow with children's toys scattered and lawn overgrown",
            "Swing slowly moving in the wind",
            "Faint chalk drawings half-faded on a cracked path",
            "Mailbox overflowed with yellowed letters",
            "A streetlamp flickering nearby"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A distant child's laugh echoes and then stops",
            "Toys twitch as if recently used",
            "Porchlight pulses in rhythm with an unseen heartbeat",
            "Curtain twitches revealing a staring silhouette"
        ],
        "camera": "Neighborhood steady cam with unsettling low-angle inserts into the windows",
        "accents": [
            "sickly amber rim on child's toy plastic to raise uncanny effect",
            "dust micro-highlights catching in porchlight"
        ],
        "mood": "domestic unease",
        "lighting": "flickering sodium lamp with cold fill",
        "style": "suburban psychological horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Derelict coastal cottage with storm-tossed curtains and salt-scarred walls",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Derelict coastal cottage with storm-tossed curtains and salt-scarred walls",
            "Tide-streaked stones at the base",
            "A rope-anchored rowboat half submerged",
            "Seagull bones picked clean near the foundation",
            "An old lantern swinging with no wind"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Waves briefly illuminate a shadow at the window",
            "A child's drawing washed onto the floor in the surf's spray",
            "Salt flakes drifting down in an impossible interior current",
            "Footprints appear in wet sand leading to the cellar hatch"
        ],
        "camera": "Handheld shoreline approach with tight wet-glass inserts into rooms",
        "accents": [
            "cold specular on salt crusts to intensify decay",
            "wet-surface micro-highlights in puddles reflecting lantern light"
        ],
        "mood": "melancholic dread",
        "lighting": "strobe-like flash of lightning and deep shadow",
        "style": "coastal ghost vignette"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Grand manor ballroom frozen in time with dust motes and a toppled chandelier",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Grand manor ballroom frozen in time with dust motes and a toppled chandelier",
            "Tattered drapes framing cracked mirrors",
            "Faded ballroom floor patterned with old scuffs",
            "A rusted gramophone with a single warped record",
            "Portraits whose eyes seem to align as you move"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Phantom music briefly plays from the gramophone then scratches out",
            "Chandelier sways though there is no draft",
            "A pair of dancing shadows slide across the floor alone",
            "A portrait's painted face weeps a dark streak"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow dolly through ballroom with periodic push-ins on portraits",
        "accents": [
            "thin warm rim on chandelier crystals to catch dust",
            "high-detail micro-highlights on cracked varnish and fabric weave"
        ],
        "mood": "elegant decay",
        "lighting": "pale moon shafts through dust-laden air",
        "style": "period-jump scare aesthetic"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Basement laundry room with humming machines and unexplained wet footprints",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Basement laundry room with humming machines and unexplained wet footprints",
            "Flickering fluorescent strip above stained tile",
            "Stacked baskets with moth-eaten linens",
            "A water-stained calendar page stuck to the wall",
            "A child's small shoe behind the dryer"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Washer cycles start with no power connected",
            "A slow smear appears on the dusty cement floor",
            "Steam forms an outline of a face on the cold wall",
            "The dryer door bangs open and closed by itself"
        ],
        "camera": "Low, tight steady with rhythmic cuts matching the hum of machines",
        "accents": [
            "cool wet micro-highlights on footprints",
            "greasy speculars on old metallic surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "claustrophobic unease",
        "lighting": "stuttering fluorescent with deep side shadow",
        "style": "intimate domestic horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Hallway lined with childhood drawings that slowly transform as you walk past",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Hallway lined with childhood drawings that slowly transform as you walk past",
            "Faded fingerprints on the paint",
            "Scattered crayons gone cold",
            "A low hum of a distant toy music box",
            "A door at the end slightly ajar"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Crayon faces subtly shifting expression to watch you",
            "Floorboard squeaks syncing with heartbeats",
            "The music box melody plays one more verse then rewinds",
            "A drawing on the wall bleeds a dark stain"
        ],
        "camera": "Tracking close with slow parallax to emphasize the shifting art",
        "accents": [
            "soft warm rim on colored wax to make colors lurch",
            "tiny texture micro-highlights on paper fibers"
        ],
        "mood": "creeping childlike terror",
        "lighting": "dim hallway glow with strong end-of-hall contrast",
        "style": "psychological supernatural"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Attic filled with trunks and a cracked dollhouse mirroring the house layout",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Attic filled with trunks and a cracked dollhouse mirroring the house layout",
            "Beetle-eaten beams and dust-sunken trunks",
            "A small hand-shaped imprint on an old trunk",
            "Moth wings glittering like sequins",
            "Creaking ladder leading down"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Miniature lamps inside the dollhouse flicker on matching the main house",
            "A tiny chair in the dollhouse moves as though occupied",
            "Dust motes reform into the shape of tiny footsteps",
            "A whisper comes through the attic slats like child's voice"
        ],
        "camera": "Macro-to-wide dollhouse reveal with synchronized cuts between scales",
        "accents": [
            "tiny warm micro-highlights in dollhouse windows to enhance uncanny mirror",
            "textured wood grain micro-highlights on trunks and beams"
        ],
        "mood": "miniature uncanny valley",
        "lighting": "soft attic shafts contrasted with dollhouse warm lights",
        "style": "metaphysical object horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Kitchen with an antique stove where pots boil though nothing is on the burner",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Kitchen with an antique stove where pots boil though nothing is on the burner",
            "Yellowed recipe cards pinned to a corkboard",
            "A clock stuck at midnight",
            "Cupboards partially ajar revealing empty plates",
            "A smear of jam on the counter with no jar"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Steam curls forming ephemeral handprints above the pot",
            "Utensils clatter in a gentle rhythm like a lullaby",
            "A tea towel drops from a hook though no one touched it",
            "Oven door slowly creaks open to reveal a shadowed interior"
        ],
        "camera": "Close steady on stove with wider reveals to the rest of the kitchen",
        "accents": [
            "warm speculars on boiling droplets for ominous life",
            "gloss micro-highlights on cracked enamel"
        ],
        "mood": "domestic spectral presence",
        "lighting": "single warm lamp over stove inside cold kitchen",
        "style": "homely haunt"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Sunroom overtaken by vines that creep in patterns like writing",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Sunroom overtaken by vines that creep in patterns like writing",
            "Broken glass panes and warped wicker furniture",
            "A deck where leaves swirl despite no wind",
            "A faded tea set half-buried in moss",
            "A faded photograph propped on a table"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Vines subtly reconfigure to form new symbols over time",
            "A teacup tilts and fills with dark rainwater though outside is dry",
            "Shadows of hands trail across the glass from inside",
            "A bird trapped and then freed in a quick, inexplicable movement"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow 360 of the sunroom with close-ups on vine-lettering",
        "accents": [
            "green rim micro-highlights to emphasize organic intrusion",
            "wet moss micro-highlights on wicker and china"
        ],
        "mood": "nature turned intimate threat",
        "lighting": "soft filtered daylight with unnatural green tint",
        "style": "eco-supernatural"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Study with a fireplace where the letters of books rearrange into names",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Study with a fireplace where the letters of books rearrange into names",
            "Leather-bound tomes and an overturned inkwell",
            "A map pinned with unreadable pins",
            "A grandfather clock ticking unevenly",
            "A single chair facing the empty hearth"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Book spines shift to show new letters as if rewritten",
            "A pen scratches across paper though no hand moves it",
            "Ash in the hearth forms symbols then disperses",
            "The clock ticks backward for a breath then returns"
        ],
        "camera": "Medium slow pan with macro cuts on changing book titles",
        "accents": [
            "soft ember rim on page edges to highlight alteration",
            "ink micro-highlights catching the light"
        ],
        "mood": "intellectual unease",
        "lighting": "warm hearth contrast with cool room fill",
        "style": "occult library vignette"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Nursery where lullaby plays faintly and a mobile turns without a breeze",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Nursery where lullaby plays faintly and a mobile turns without a breeze",
            "Small bed with rumpled sheets",
            "Mobile shadows spinning on the ceiling",
            "A faded nameplate on the wall",
            "A rocking chair with a slow, empty sway"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Music box winds with no visible mechanism",
            "Tiny blankets fold themselves neatly",
            "A soft tiny handprint appears on the window",
            "The rocking chair rocks once then stops suddenly"
        ],
        "camera": "Low intimate close-ups paired with a slow orbit of the room",
        "accents": [
            "warm nursery micro-highlights on soft fabric fibers",
            "subtle mist rim on window to suggest breath"
        ],
        "mood": "haunting lullaby",
        "lighting": "soft moonlit glow with internal amber lamp",
        "style": "melancholic spectral"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Porch with peeling paint where phantom footprints lead into a nearby cornfield",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Porch with peeling paint where phantom footprints lead into a nearby cornfield",
            "A wind-chime stuck mid-tinkle",
            "Tall corn rustling although no wind",
            "A child's kite snagged on a post",
            "An abandoned bicycle half-buried in leaves"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Footprints appear wet then quickly dry but continue deeper",
            "A distant humming draws the camera toward the field",
            "Kite flutters in a direction that guides the viewer",
            "Corn stalks fold to reveal a small, empty space in a spiral"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow push from porch down into field with low-angle perspective",
        "accents": [
            "golden rim on dry stalks to contrast with dark path",
            "soil micro-highlights to accent footprints"
        ],
        "mood": "rural uncanny",
        "lighting": "late-evening amber with creeping shadow",
        "style": "folk-horror vignette"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Glass-enclosed conservatory where faces press against fogged panes from the outside",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Glass-enclosed conservatory where faces press against fogged panes from the outside",
            "Exotic plants wilting in unnatural patterns",
            "Damp glass with dozens of handprints",
            "Broken potted plants left to rot",
            "A pair of shoes left by the fern stand"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Faces form then melt away on the fogged glass",
            "Potted soil shifts as if grown from within",
            "A single leaf falls upward toward the ceiling",
            "Condensation writes a slowly spelled single word before dripping away"
        ],
        "camera": "Tight glass insert with wide reveal of the plant interiors",
        "accents": [
            "moisture micro-highlights on glass to emphasize faces",
            "soft green rim on leaf veins"
        ],
        "mood": "suffocating otherness",
        "lighting": "damp overcast with green-filtered highlights",
        "style": "botanical uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Guest bedroom where the bed is perfectly made though signs of recent use exist",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Guest bedroom where the bed is perfectly made though signs of recent use exist",
            "A hot cup cooling on the bedside table",
            "A single shoe tucked under the bed",
            "A perfume scent hanging in the air",
            "A diary left open to an empty entry"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Blanket creases form as if someone rose and sat again",
            "A page turns in the diary though the wind is still",
            "A faint silhouette crosses the doorway and dissipates",
            "A clock rewinds a few minutes and then continues"
        ],
        "camera": "Soft dolly with intimate POV from the bedside",
        "accents": [
            "warm textile micro-highlights to make bed seem freshly used",
            "perfume micro-glints in air particles"
        ],
        "mood": "unsettling hospitality",
        "lighting": "soft bedside lamp glow contrasted with deep window shadow",
        "style": "quiet domestic spectral"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Staircase that extends further than the house allows, vanishing into a darkness that hums",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Staircase that extends further than the house allows, vanishing into a darkness that hums",
            "Polished banister reflecting impossible angles",
            "A runner rug frayed at the edges",
            "Small scuffs on alternating steps",
            "A portrait halfway up turned to watch"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Steps creak in sequence though no one climbs",
            "A low humming resonates from the dark upper landing",
            "The length of the staircase seems to subtly shift when not looked at",
            "A hand briefly grasps the banister and then disappears"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow track up stairs with a lengthening lens to distort perspective",
        "accents": [
            "soft gloss micro-highlights on banister",
            "textured runner micro-highlights for tactile unease"
        ],
        "mood": "spatial disorientation",
        "lighting": "narrow directional shaft from unseen source",
        "style": "escher-like paranormal"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Garden maze outside a manor where hedges whisper and paths rearrange at night",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Garden maze outside a manor where hedges whisper and paths rearrange at night",
            "Stone statues half-hidden in leaves",
            "A moonlit reflecting pool at center",
            "Lanterns at the path's edge slowly extinguishing",
            "An echoing distant bell"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Paths subtly shift, leading to different exits",
            "Hedges whisper names when a listener passes",
            "Statues turn their heads incrementally",
            "Waters in the pool ripple though no breeze stirs"
        ],
        "camera": "Aerial to ground transition with handheld in-maze wandering",
        "accents": [
            "moonlit micro-highlights on leaf edges to map paths",
            "stone micro-highlights to show statue detail"
        ],
        "mood": "labyrinthine dread",
        "lighting": "sharp moon contrast with soft pool glow",
        "style": "surreal garden horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Telephone room where old rotary phones ring and split voices whisper through receivers",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Telephone room where old rotary phones ring and split voices whisper through receivers",
            "Stacks of answering machine tapes scattered",
            "Dusty switchboard panels with loose cables",
            "A single red light blinking slowly",
            "A wall of framed outdated phone directories"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Phones ring in impossible sequences then cut to static",
            "Voices overlap speaking names and dates not yet occurred",
            "A cord wraps slowly around a chair leg as if guided",
            "A dial rotates on its own and lands on a blank number"
        ],
        "camera": "Tight low-light with intrusive close-ins on receiver cords",
        "accents": [
            "cold plastic micro-highlights on handset curves",
            "tiny LED micro-highlights on blinking lights"
        ],
        "mood": "technological haunt",
        "lighting": "strobe-like telephone flashes in shadow",
        "style": "analog paranormal piece"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Parlor with a wall of clocks that all stop at different minutes corresponding to past tragedies",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Parlor with a wall of clocks that all stop at different minutes corresponding to past tragedies",
            "Mantel with stacked family photos",
            "A faint scent of old perfume",
            "A single chair facing the wall like a shrine",
            "Cracked glass faces on some clocks"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Clocks tick-sync in unnatural rhythm before freezing again",
            "A mourner's portrait seems to tilt slightly toward you",
            "A slow wind blows pages of a memorial book",
            "Time on a single clock advances a full hour in a blink"
        ],
        "camera": "Medium pan across clocks with clock-face close-ups",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-highlights reflecting fractured time",
            "paper micro-highlights on memorial pages"
        ],
        "mood": "temporal melancholy",
        "lighting": "muted ambient with spotlit clock faces",
        "style": "time-themed gothic"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Laundry chute where small objects slide up instead of down and faint giggles echo",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Laundry chute where small objects slide up instead of down and faint giggles echo",
            "Basement mouth with a cold steel ring",
            "A sock stuck halfway up covered in soot",
            "A small child's hat wedged near a seam",
            "Damp odor and iron tang"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Items reverse direction and return to upper floors",
            "A muffled giggle loops in echo with each reversal",
            "Lint patterns coagulate into a face",
            "The chute briefly exhales a cold breath"
        ],
        "camera": "Low downward insert with sudden upward whip to show reversal",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-highlights on chute rims",
            "lint micro-highlights forming patterns"
        ],
        "mood": "playful menace",
        "lighting": "deep basement shadow with singular cold rim",
        "style": "domestic uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Pantry where jars rattle in Morse-like code and the spice labels read names",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Pantry where jars rattle in Morse-like code and the spice labels read names",
            "Wooden shelves sagging with tins",
            "A moth-eaten burlap sack with a stitched date",
            "A sticky footprint halfway up a shelf",
            "A small drawer filled with folded, old theater tickets"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Jars rattle in patterned sequences that seem meaningful",
            "Spice labels rearrange to spell out a warning",
            "A drawer opens exposing a child's folded note",
            "A single spice cloud erupts and smells like the past"
        ],
        "camera": "Macro close with rhythmic cuts synced to jar rattles",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-highlights on jars for tactile sound emphasis",
            "paper micro-highlights on the folded note"
        ],
        "mood": "coded intimacy",
        "lighting": "narrow warm pantry lamp against cool ambient",
        "style": "whispered horror vignette"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Window seat where frost draws patterns of faces and sometimes weeps",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Window seat where frost draws patterns of faces and sometimes weeps",
            "A stack of yellowing letters on the sill",
            "A teacup with a lipstick ring that fades",
            "A doll perched beside the pillow",
            "A small name embroidered on the cushion"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Frost slowly forms eyes and mouths then melts into tears",
            "A letter lifts slightly as if read by invisible hand",
            "The doll turns its head a fraction when unobserved",
            "A teacup refills with cold replenishing condensation"
        ],
        "camera": "Tender close with delicate macro on frost patterns",
        "accents": [
            "crystal micro-highlights on frost edges",
            "fabric micro-highlights on embroidered name"
        ],
        "mood": "melancholy haunt",
        "lighting": "soft cold window glow with interior lamp warmth",
        "style": "poignant supernatural vignette"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Haunted Houses",
        "scene": "Final reveal: cellar door opens to a corridor lined with hundreds of tiny doors",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Final reveal: cellar door opens to a corridor lined with hundreds of tiny doors",
            "Low ceiling dripping with damp",
            "Little brass knobs tarnished with age",
            "A single key on a chain hanging in the center",
            "A scent of old lavender and iron"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Tiny doors creak open one by one revealing whispered scenes",
            "A key floats and turns several locks simultaneously",
            "A distant, layered chorus of voices answers the key turn",
            "Corridor seems to lengthen as you walk, doors multiplying"
        ],
        "camera": "Long corridor dolly with micro close-ups on each tiny door",
        "accents": [
            "soft brass micro-highlights on knobs",
            "moisture micro-highlights on corridor walls"
        ],
        "mood": "resolute uncanny closure",
        "lighting": "deep cellar shadow pierced by pinpoint warm lights",
        "style": "final mystery tableau"
    }
]