[
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A village square where a carved idol blights houses",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Stone idol in the market casting a cold aura",
            "Thatched roofs blackening around a central effigy",
            "Fountain water receding from one cracked statue",
            "Market stalls wilting outward from a shrine",
            "Courtyard stones etched with fresh glyphs"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Leaves blacken as people walk past the idol",
            "A bell tolls and windows fog with slow script",
            "A dog refuses to cross the square",
            "Children whisper and point as crops wither"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow establishing crane with creeping push-ins toward runes",
        "accents": [
            "sickly green rim-light around carved features",
            "micro-detail on cracked stone texture"
        ],
        "mood": "quiet oppression",
        "lighting": "muted overcast with selective sick rim-light",
        "style": "rural malediction"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A family photo album where faces fade overnight",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Old wooden table strewn with sepia photos losing detail",
            "Closet where portraits peel like bark",
            "Grandmother's parlor with frames showing blank eyes",
            "Attic trunk where photos curl into ash",
            "Photo wall where one face evaporates daily"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Faces, one by one, wash out to pale blurs",
            "A hand reaches to touch a fading cheek and recoils",
            "Pages burn slow without flame",
            "A child's drawing becomes the only clear image"
        ],
        "camera": "Intimate rack-focus between portrait and hands, lingering on vanishing detail",
        "accents": [
            "warm tungsten on intact frames contrasted with cold desaturation",
            "soft film grain emphasizing age"
        ],
        "mood": "personal dread",
        "lighting": "warm interior fades to cold shadow",
        "style": "domestic uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A harbor where ropes rot instantly when tied",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Fishing boats with frayed moorings unraveling",
            "Dockside crates sprouting black rot at corners",
            "Lantern-lit pier where knots fall apart",
            "Tide pool where rope-fibers float like ash",
            "Harbor master's office with a ledger of failed repairs"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Knots dissolve into dust mid-tug",
            "A line snaps into a whisper and drifts away",
            "Nets disintegrate leaving catch sliding free",
            "Seagulls inspect rotten fibers with strange interest"
        ],
        "camera": "Low-angle wide with close knife-sharp macro of fibers unraveling",
        "accents": [
            "wet specular highlights on salt-worn rope",
            "cold moon gloss to emphasize texture loss"
        ],
        "mood": "helpless decay",
        "lighting": "cool nautical moonlight with damp shadows",
        "style": "maritime folk nightmare"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A wedding reception where toasts turn guests silent",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Banquet hall where smiles fade mid-sentence",
            "Tables covered in white where plates darken",
            "Dance floor with dancers frozen mid-step",
            "Bride's bouquet wilting into black petals",
            "Porch where music mutes with each cheer"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Voices thin to whispers and disappear",
            "Champagne loses fizz and becomes glassy stillness",
            "A ring grows cold and a guest drops to their knees",
            "A photograph from the celebration shows blank faces"
        ],
        "camera": "Fluid Steadicam weaving through guests with sudden stops",
        "accents": [
            "warm celebration highlights turned murky",
            "tiny motes in air catching brittle light"
        ],
        "mood": "festive dread",
        "lighting": "warm interior going dim in creeping pockets",
        "style": "domestic horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A scholar's study where ink writes its own warnings",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Desk where manuscripts bleed dark letters",
            "Library alcove with scrawled margins replicating themselves",
            "Candlelit desk where ink pulls toward a sigil",
            "Lecture hall where chalk unravels into glyphs",
            "Herb-strewn study with pages turning to ash"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Pen moves unaided to complete ominous lines",
            "Ink pools into runes that pulse faintly",
            "Books slam themselves closed upon reading",
            "Notes rearrange into a phrase of doom"
        ],
        "camera": "Close macro on nib and ink with slow reveal of script meaning",
        "accents": [
            "tungsten rim on paper fibers",
            "ink specular catching tiny reflections"
        ],
        "mood": "intellectual dread",
        "lighting": "low desk lamp with deep surrounding shadow",
        "style": "occult academic"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A mountain pass where travelers return older overnight",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Shelter hut where faces gain new lines each dawn",
            "Trail marker with increasing moss and timeworn plaques",
            "Ridge where backpacks show decades of wear",
            "Frozen pond reflecting aged visages",
            "Summit cairn with stacked weathered relics"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A young hiker wakes decades older",
            "Shoes crumble into dust as feet remain unchanged",
            "Maps rewrite themselves with routes from other eras",
            "A companion remembers a lifetime that never was"
        ],
        "camera": "Tracking through thin air with time-lapse aging cues",
        "accents": [
            "cold alpine rim-lights on frost and hair",
            "crystalline micro-detail on frost flakes"
        ],
        "mood": "unforgiving inevitability",
        "lighting": "cold high-altitude sun with stark shadows",
        "style": "timed folk curse"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A marketplace where bargains take pieces of memory",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Stall selling trinkets that eat recollection",
            "Peddler's cart with jars labeled 'Yesterday' and 'Name'",
            "Alley with trades written in breath fog",
            "Tent where customers leave lighter in mind",
            "Bazaar where laughter echoes hollow"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Customers leave smiling but forget a loved one's face",
            "Coins clink and a memory dissolves into smoke",
            "A merchant sketches a memory and it vanishes",
            "A child trades a song and cannot hum it later"
        ],
        "camera": "Handheld intimate moves through stalls with shallow depth",
        "accents": [
            "warm lantern haze with selective desat on faces",
            "soft specular on aged coins"
        ],
        "mood": "melancholic unease",
        "lighting": "warm marketplace light with shadowy pockets",
        "style": "moral fable horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "Hospital ward where healed scars reopen under an amulet's glow",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Ward bed where bandages fray as amulet pulses",
            "Nursery where small scars reappear on infants",
            "Isolation room where stitches unravel",
            "Hallway where footprints bloom bloodless scars",
            "Recovery lounge with photographs of past wounds returning"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Scars seam open into old hurts",
            "A nurse watches a healed arm bloom old markings",
            "Machines beep as wounds leak memory",
            "A patient remembers pain they never felt that way"
        ],
        "camera": "Clinical steady shots with sudden intimate close-ups on skin",
        "accents": [
            "cold surgical highlights with crimson speculars",
            "soft bloom to suggest unreality"
        ],
        "mood": "medical dread",
        "lighting": "sterile fluorescent with pockets of unnatural glow",
        "style": "clinical curse"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A field where crops sprout black flowers under a child's bracelet",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of withered stalks surrounding a play area",
            "Barn where hay turns to soot overnight",
            "Irrigation ditch where water darkens like ink",
            "Fence line where vines coil into glyphs",
            "Harvest basket filled with night-blooming petals"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Fields bloom midnight flowers in daylight",
            "Farmhands cough as pollen steals color",
            "A bracelet left in soil grows a black stem",
            "Birds avoid a ring of cursed soil"
        ],
        "camera": "Rolling wide through fields with close macro on petals",
        "accents": [
            "matte black specular on petals",
            "golden late-sun rim on distant healthy crops"
        ],
        "mood": "rural elegy",
        "lighting": "daylight corrupted by shadow pools",
        "style": "agricultural cursefolk"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A cafe where orders return as lost chances",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Counter where coffee cups hold miniature regrets",
            "A chalkboard menu listing 'what ifs' and 'could have beens'",
            "Patrons sipping and forgetting recent choices",
            "Barista tracing names that fade from memory",
            "Window where steam writes a future not taken"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Sipping erases a decision from the drinker's past",
            "A customer cannot recall why they came",
            "A spilled cup returns a scene of an alternative life",
            "Receipts show transactions that never occurred"
        ],
        "camera": "Close interior with organic handheld, focus on faces mid-recall",
        "accents": [
            "warm cafe highlights with selective blur",
            "tiny steam caustics catching micro-detail"
        ],
        "mood": "bittersweet loss",
        "lighting": "cozy daylight that feels off-kilter",
        "style": "everyday uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A library reading circle where names are erased from books",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Circles of readers watching titles shift",
            "Shelf labels for people rather than genres",
            "A single tome with a blank title page",
            "Reading lamp that pulses when a name disappears",
            "Record ledger losing entries in ink"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A reader opens to find their own name gone",
            "Pages rearrange to remove characters' histories",
            "A bookmark melts into blank paper",
            "A librarian whispers a name that becomes void"
        ],
        "camera": "Over-the-shoulder reads with slow reveal of missing lines",
        "accents": [
            "warm tungsten on paper edges",
            "soft micro-shadow along gutter lines"
        ],
        "mood": "intellectual loss",
        "lighting": "lamplight pools with deep surrounding shade",
        "style": "literary uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "An industrial plant where machines forget their purpose",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Assembly line that produces blank, useless objects",
            "Control room with screens looping a single word",
            "Maintenance bay with tools that refuse to cut",
            "Conveyor belts that return to start with emptier crates",
            "Warehouse where boxes open to reveal emptiness"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A machine prints and immediately eats its product",
            "Operators cannot recall their own job titles",
            "A wrench slips and turns to dust",
            "Alarms announce tasks that never finish"
        ],
        "camera": "Cold wide with technical close-ups on failing mechanisms",
        "accents": [
            "metallic speculars dulled by grey haze",
            "tiny oil reflections on failing components"
        ],
        "mood": "mechanical dread",
        "lighting": "industrial fluorescent with shadowed corners",
        "style": "industrial malaise"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A child who paints doors that lead to other people's regrets",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Playroom wall with miniature painted portals",
            "Neighborhood doors blooming painted keyholes",
            "A gallery of painted entries displaying strangers' sorrow",
            "A painted dollhouse where openings breathe",
            "Mailbox with painted door slips"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Opening a painted door floods a memory across a room",
            "Neighbors find their regrets painted overnight",
            "A parent closes a painted door and cannot forget the scene",
            "Paint drips rearrange into new entrances"
        ],
        "camera": "Low child-eye perspective with dreamy push-ins on paint detail",
        "accents": [
            "saturated paint sheen with tactile brush micro-texture",
            "soft halo on painted edges"
        ],
        "mood": "innocent dread",
        "lighting": "soft daylight with surreal saturation",
        "style": "childlike uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A courtroom where verdicts rewrite people's histories",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Docket board updating to erase past deeds",
            "Jury box with notes dissolving into white",
            "Gavel leaving physical ridges in time",
            "Public gallery murmuring as memories shift",
            "Plaintiff files turning blank when read aloud"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A verdict changes a witness's childhood",
            "Names vanish from legal records mid-chant",
            "The accused forgets their own alibi",
            "History footage rewrites itself in the viewing room"
        ],
        "camera": "Formal steady courtroom coverage with intimate witness inserts",
        "accents": [
            "wood grain speculars and cold courtroom glare",
            "dust motes visible in shafts of legal light"
        ],
        "mood": "institutional dread",
        "lighting": "bright judicial light with deep panel shadows",
        "style": "procedural uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A puppeteer's theater where strings pull memories out of people",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Curtained stage with shadow-puppets tugging at air",
            "Dressing room mirrors reflecting threads from heads",
            "Audience leaving with empty pockets of recollection",
            "Workshop strewn with severed memory-strings",
            "Backstage where a puppet wears someone else's laugh"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A string pulls a laughing memory into a puppet",
            "Hands clutch at invisible threads and find none",
            "A child's lullaby leaves the singer blank-eyed",
            "Puppets whisper names that echo and disappear"
        ],
        "camera": "Theatrical wide with tight macro on thread motion and finger pulls",
        "accents": [
            "warm stage rim-light with soft haze",
            "subtle thread sheen catching tiny highlights"
        ],
        "mood": "performative menace",
        "lighting": "spotlight pools with heavy surrounding shadow",
        "style": "circus occult"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A train carriage where tickets erase places you've been",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Ticket stamping machine that burns map lines",
            "Seat pockets with blank postcards",
            "Conductors who cannot remember destinations",
            "Station boards losing one city each hour",
            "A lost luggage carousel of forgotten items"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A stamped ticket removes a memory of a city",
            "Passengers search for a place they once loved and cannot recall",
            "Announcements list destinations that never existed",
            "A map rewrites with empty seas"
        ],
        "camera": "Moving carriage shots with window reflections and inside tight inserts",
        "accents": [
            "cool window speculars with smudged rim highlights",
            "soft film grain for travel nostalgia"
        ],
        "mood": "nomadic unease",
        "lighting": "muted daylight with interior shadow pockets",
        "style": "transit surrealism"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A school where names vanish from attendance rolls",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Classroom list with fading pupils",
            "Cafeteria where trays slide away from empty chairs",
            "Playground where missing children are remembered by swings only",
            "Yearbook pages with blank faces",
            "Locker rows with one empty lock every morning"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A student wakes to find they have no record of existence",
            "Teachers calling names that meet silence",
            "Photos showing gaps where friends once stood",
            "A bench holds an imprint of someone gone"
        ],
        "camera": "Documentary classroom coverage with small intimate close-ups",
        "accents": [
            "chalk dust rim on desks",
            "cool fluorescent flicker on linoleum"
        ],
        "mood": "institutional loss",
        "lighting": "bright school lighting turning clinical",
        "style": "youthful uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "An orchard where fruit tastes of forgotten promises",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Apple trees yielding fruit that makes you forget a vow",
            "Picking baskets that empty of a single memory",
            "Barn where jars label themselves with lost words",
            "Under-tree picnics where conversation evaporates",
            "Rows with signs reading 'Do not taste' in different languages"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A bite erases the memory of a promise once made",
            "A farmer tastes and cannot recall planting",
            "Fruit rots into paper with written regrets",
            "A picnic group forgets the reason for celebration"
        ],
        "camera": "Warm pastoral wide with voyeuristic close-ups on mouths",
        "accents": [
            "golden orchard rim-light on leaves",
            "soft juicy specular on fruit skin"
        ],
        "mood": "bitter nostalgia",
        "lighting": "late-afternoon gold turning melancholy",
        "style": "pastoral curse"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A lighthouse where the keeper's map erases the coastline",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Chart table with vanishing inlets",
            "Beacons pointing at empty sea",
            "Logbooks losing entries of storms",
            "Rocks that dissolve from memory into smooth waves",
            "Shoreline markers that become blank posts"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A lookout loses the memory of a safe harbor",
            "A map's ink runs and the coast recedes",
            "Boats drift where no one remembers sea lanes",
            "Signals flash to nowhere"
        ],
        "camera": "Low-angle oceanic wide with intimate cartographic macro shots",
        "accents": [
            "wet rock specular and cold sea rim-light",
            "thin mist catching lighthouse beam"
        ],
        "mood": "navigational dread",
        "lighting": "salt-washed moonlight with focused beacon light",
        "style": "nautical uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "An antique shop where objects steal a day's worth of time",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Shelf clocks losing ticks and hours",
            "Mirror that shows yesterday as today",
            "Pocket watches counting down to nothing",
            "Cluttered backroom where time pools",
            "Shop bell that rings into silent hours"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A customer leaves feeling a day missing",
            "Clocks slow and then skip an entire sunrise",
            "A watch rewinds a memory to an earlier self",
            "An hourglass empties into a single black grain"
        ],
        "camera": "Intimate dolly between shelves with time-skip jump cuts",
        "accents": [
            "antique brass specular and warm patina highlights",
            "soft temporal bloom on aging glass"
        ],
        "mood": "temporal theft",
        "lighting": "muted shop lamps with nostalgic warmth",
        "style": "time-laden melancholy"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Curses",
        "scene": "A carnival fortune teller who trades futures for faces",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Tent where velvet cards show blank futures",
            "Queue of patrons leaving altered appearances",
            "Cracked crystal ball with drifting features",
            "Booth where a face is pinned to the wall",
            "Sign promising 'Tomorrow, changed'"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A reading removes a defining facial feature",
            "Clients glimpse a future where someone else smiles with their face",
            "A scarf wraps a vanished cheek",
            "Fortune cards rearrange into new identities"
        ],
        "camera": "Tight moody inserts with smoky overlays and card-cut transitions",
        "accents": [
            "candle rim-light with smoky caustics",
            "velvet fabric micro-texture under soft spot"
        ],
        "mood": "identity dread",
        "lighting": "intimate candlelit pools in a dark tent",
        "style": "carnival occult"
    }
]