[
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A marsh at dawn where giant reeds bend into clawed shapes",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Foggy marsh with towering reed-forms",
            "Shallow pools where ripples hint at hidden limbs",
            "Boardwalk half-sunken among reed-maws",
            "A lone boathouse with teeth-like pilings",
            "Cattail fields that shiver as if breathing"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Reeds part like tendrils to reveal glowing eyes",
            "A boat rocks though no wind stirs",
            "Footsteps vanish into soft mud leaving too-large prints",
            "Dawns' light catches a silhouette sliding between stems"
        ],
        "camera": "Low sweeping dolly along the boardwalk with sudden vertical reveals",
        "accents": [
            "cold dew rim-light catching filaments on reeds",
            "soft volumetric shafts through low fog"
        ],
        "mood": "tense foreboding",
        "lighting": "pale dawn with deep under-marsh shadows",
        "style": "eco-horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "An industrial canal where oily creatures surface at night",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Abandoned dock pools reflecting flickering sodium lamps",
            "Rusting barges with dripping black tendrils",
            "Storm drains bubbling with slow motion",
            "Lock gates that groan as something slides beneath",
            "Concrete embankments flecked with strange mucous"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Black shapes slide between pillars like living oil",
            "Rats flee as a sound like a throat hums beneath water",
            "A worker's boot sinks and reveals a huge maw",
            "Sodium light stutters when a creature breathes"
        ],
        "camera": "Handheld close quarters with wet-surface macro inserts",
        "accents": [
            "slick specular reflections on oily surfaces",
            "hard sodium rim-light creating exaggerated silhouettes"
        ],
        "mood": "industrial dread",
        "lighting": "cold artificial night with reflective pools",
        "style": "urban creature feature"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A rural road where roadside reflectors blink like eyes",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Two-lane at midnight with an endless tree tunnel",
            "Snow-lined country road illuminated by moon and headlights",
            "Rustic signposts bent as if avoided",
            "A half-collapsed bridge casting long shadows",
            "Telephone poles strung with torn banners"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Reflectors flash in sequence like a predatory pattern",
            "Headlights reveal a hulking shape that absorbs light",
            "A cyclist is followed by a rhythm of unseen footsteps",
            "An engine stalls and the silence is filled by a low chant"
        ],
        "camera": "Push-in from hood ornament to roadside, then whip-pan to darkness",
        "accents": [
            "car head speculars with starburst highlights",
            "icy rim on cold breath and metal"
        ],
        "mood": "isolationary dread",
        "lighting": "stark moonlight with vehicle highlights",
        "style": "folkroad horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "An old quarry where shadows grow teeth at dusk",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Sheer rock faces with dark pockets like mouths",
            "Stagnant quarry lake reflecting gouged cliffs",
            "A rope swing hanging above black water",
            "Worksite lights long extinguished",
            "Broken machinery half-buried in scree"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Water boils as something large shifts below",
            "Pebbles roll uphill like a quiet nervousness",
            "Echoes return not as sound but as movement on the rim",
            "A thrown stone disappears before hitting surface"
        ],
        "camera": "Crane shot from rim to lake with submerged reveals via rippled reflections",
        "accents": [
            "wet rock gleam catching sparse light",
            "thin mist catching low, cool rim-light"
        ],
        "mood": "ancient menace",
        "lighting": "dusk blues with deep quarry shadows",
        "style": "primordial thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A subway tunnel where posters peel to reveal hungry mouths",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Platform with fluorescent hum and absent trains",
            "Maintenance alcoves lined in graffiti and dark stains",
            "Trackside puddles reflecting impossible rows of teeth",
            "Emergency exit doors that open to black",
            "Signage flickering with phantom adverts"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Posters whisper and slide into shapes that swallow light",
            "Echoes of footsteps come from multiple directions",
            "A commuter's reflection shows an extra, wrong face",
            "A train passes with no sound and leaves a ripple of displaced air"
        ],
        "camera": "Long tracking shots down the platform with abrupt jump cuts to vents and grates",
        "accents": [
            "cold fluorescent caustics and wet-floor reflections",
            "metallic sheen on rail profiles"
        ],
        "mood": "claustrophobic dread",
        "lighting": "artificial flicker with cavernous dark",
        "style": "urban horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A shipping yard where shipping containers shift like ribcages",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Stacked containers forming a maze with narrow alleys",
            "Cranes silhouetted against an industrial moon",
            "Forklifts abandoned with keys still in ignition",
            "Sea mist rolling between stacked metal",
            "A container door slightly ajar with breathing inside"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Containers creak and slide to form new paths",
            "A cargo tarp flutters and reveals a slithering limb",
            "A distant horn becomes a low resonant call",
            "Crates open to reveal bundles that twitch in unison"
        ],
        "camera": "High crane orbital shots intercut with low-angle container-corner macros",
        "accents": [
            "oil-streaked metal speculars",
            "silty mist catching low warm worklight"
        ],
        "mood": "industrial unease",
        "lighting": "cold dock lights against warm ship glows",
        "style": "cargo-terror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A suburban cul-de-sac where lawns ripple like scaled backs",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Identical houses with green lawns and trimmed hedges",
            "Kids' bicycles left in neat clusters",
            "Barbecues cold and unattended",
            "Sprinklers frozen mid-arc",
            "Mailboxes that tilt like nostrils"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Lawns rise and fall in slow animal breaths",
            "Garden gnomes turn their heads in unison",
            "A dog barks at the grass and is then strangely quiet",
            "Porch lights blink out one by one in a rhythm"
        ],
        "camera": "Static wide shot with creeping handheld inserts into yards",
        "accents": [
            "evening warm rim-lights on house trim",
            "micro dew specular on grass blades"
        ],
        "mood": "suburban uncanny",
        "lighting": "evening warm with deep creeping shade",
        "style": "domestic monster tale"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A coastal cave where bioluminescent beasts watch tide pools",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Sensitive stalactites dripping luminescent water",
            "Black sand mouth entrance with glowing teeth",
            "Pools pulsing with living light",
            "Barnacle-encrusted ribs of some elder thing",
            "A narrow ledge where waves lap like whispers"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Bioluminescent tendrils probe new arrivals tentatively",
            "Reflections reveal too many eyes in the dark",
            "Small crabs scuttle away from a forming silhouette",
            "A lantern's light is absorbed into living glow"
        ],
        "camera": "Low dolly with tight macro on biolume textures then reveal wides of cavern",
        "accents": [
            "soft inner glow specular and wet rock sheen",
            "high micro-detail on barnacle and shell textures"
        ],
        "mood": "sublime terror",
        "lighting": "internal bioluminescent sources with deep black surrounds",
        "style": "submarine gothic"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "An alpine village where snow reveals footprints too large to be human",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Narrow lanes between frost-sleek cottages",
            "Frozen well with a shadow moving beneath the ice",
            "A church steeple rimed in frost",
            "A children's sled abandoned mid-slope",
            "Icicle-laden eaves that chitter in the wind"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Giant prints appear overnight between houses",
            "A bell toll seems to come from underfoot",
            "Smoke from chimneys turns a strange red as it rises",
            "Dogs howl at empty sky and then go silent"
        ],
        "camera": "Steady tracking through lanes with occasional crane reveals over the village",
        "accents": [
            "crisp alpine rim-light and ice specular micro-detail",
            "cold breath haze on every close subject"
        ],
        "mood": "wintry dread",
        "lighting": "cold blue daylight with long winter shadows",
        "style": "mountain folklore horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A botanical garden at night where topiaries rearrange into predators",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Glasshouse with humid glass and tangled growth",
            "Formal hedges that shift like sleeping animals",
            "Fountain pools reflecting moving crowns of leaves",
            "Glasswalkways with creeping root drafts below",
            "Statues half-swallowed by vines that twitch"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Topiaries shift slowly, sharpening their edges",
            "Vine tendrils curl around railings like fingers",
            "A gardener's shears snip though nothing is seen",
            "A scent wafts that causes nearby patrons to freeze"
        ],
        "camera": "Graceful glide along paths with macro on leaf movement and inside glasshouse reflections",
        "accents": [
            "humid glass caustics and glossy leaf speculars",
            "soft green rim-lights on plant edges"
        ],
        "mood": "jardin macabre",
        "lighting": "artificial nocturnal amber with dense green shadows",
        "style": "horticultural uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A coastal lighthouse reef where coral forms mouths at low tide",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Jagged reef with barnacle mouths along the rocks",
            "Boat moorings frayed and chewed",
            "Beacon light catching writhing tide-line",
            "A wrecked hull half-sunk among living reef",
            "Tide pools with teeth-lined cavities"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Coral fringes part and snap shut like jaws",
            "A fisher's net is swallowed in a single gulp",
            "A gull pecks then recoils from a moving coral lip",
            "A waved hand feels a tug that is not a current"
        ],
        "camera": "Coastal handheld with submerged inserts and tide-line macro reveals",
        "accents": [
            "wet organic specular on coral surface",
            "salt-spray micro-sheen on rigging"
        ],
        "mood": "marine predation",
        "lighting": "low tide cool with spotlight-like shimmer on reef",
        "style": "oceanic creature horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A farmhouse attic where the stored quilts breathe in an unsteady rhythm",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Stacks of chests with moth-eaten covers",
            "An air of age laden with stitched eyes",
            "A window framing a sliver of moon",
            "A cradle empty but moving slowly",
            "A ladder leading to a trapdoor that scents the attic air"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Quilts rise and fall as if sleeping",
            "Needlework forms patterns that crawl toward the edge",
            "A loose button rolls like an insect across boards",
            "Dust motes gather into a moving shape"
        ],
        "camera": "Constrained handheld at attic level with tight macro on textiles",
        "accents": [
            "warm tungsten rim-light highlighting fabric weave",
            "soft dust-caustic catching the attic air"
        ],
        "mood": "domestic unease",
        "lighting": "warm lamplight with thick surrounding shadow",
        "style": "household uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A carnival tunnel of love where statues kiss and then whisper",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Long mirrored tunnel with plaster figures leaning",
            "Heart-shaped lights that pulse faintly",
            "A photo booth with smiling patchwork lovers",
            "Velvet drapes that move though no breeze",
            "A corridor of toy hearts that beat in pattern"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Statues turn their heads and lips part to breathe",
            "Pictures in the booth change to show unknown embraces",
            "A visitor finds their reflection embraced by another hand",
            "A whispering chorus builds into a palpable touch"
        ],
        "camera": "Intimate glide with mirrored symmetry and close inserts on lips and fabric",
        "accents": [
            "soft crimson rim-lights with heart-shaped flare",
            "velvet texture micro-detail and soft bloom"
        ],
        "mood": "seductive dread",
        "lighting": "dim romantic pools with underlying chill",
        "style": "romantic grotesque"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A riverside mill where the wheel bites instead of turning",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Old millstones ground in half-submerged jaws",
            "Sluice gates with teeth-like slats",
            "Mossy timbers that flex with each swell",
            "A millpond skin that ripples like muscle",
            "A footbridge that trembles as if alive"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Wheel chews at floating debris and occasionally at rope",
            "Water bubbles with a throat-like vibration",
            "A cat's fur bristles and it jumps a full head-length away",
            "A miller's hat floats and is then swallowed under"
        ],
        "camera": "Dynamic low waterline moves with macro on rotating teeth and wet wood",
        "accents": [
            "wet wood gloss with millstone grit texture",
            "low-frequency ripple caustics across water surface"
        ],
        "mood": "industrial primal fear",
        "lighting": "muted daylight with dark water contrasts",
        "style": "rustic monster fable"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A museum diorama where the taxidermy moves to form a larger beast",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Natural history halls with glass displays",
            "Placards that rearrange their text",
            "Dim gallery with spot-lit preserved creatures",
            "A curator's desk full of annotated notes",
            "Backrooms where tissue and glass meet"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Taxidermy parts shift at the joins to form new postures",
            "Eyes in displays blink and refocus on visitors",
            "Bones clack softly as if reassembling",
            "A large shadow moves across multiple cases simultaneously"
        ],
        "camera": "Steady glide through gallery with precise insert cuts on joins and eyes",
        "accents": [
            "glass caustic micro-glints and polished wood reflections",
            "museum spot rim-light sculpting silhouettes"
        ],
        "mood": "assembled dread",
        "lighting": "spotlit displays in overall dim gallery",
        "style": "cabinet-of-curiosities horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A seaside market where the fish vendors display impossible catches",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Stalls piled with iridescent scales and odd mouths",
            "Ice blocks with trapped, still things inside",
            "Buckets bubbling with small squirming forms",
            "Aboard a beached hull filled with rolled-up netting",
            "A pier where scent and salt make time sticky"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Catch mouths open and reveal improbable anatomies",
            "A vendor smiles too broadly as scales twitch",
            "Seagulls hesitate as a small creature crawls free",
            "A child reaches and egg-like shells pulse"
        ],
        "camera": "Market-level handheld with grease and salt close macro",
        "accents": [
            "wet scale speculars with cold salt rim-light",
            "frosted ice micro-detail on caught creatures"
        ],
        "mood": "grotesque curiosity",
        "lighting": "dawn market glare with wet reflective shadows",
        "style": "sea-market uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A library basement where books whisper and sprout teeth",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Stacks of forgotten volumes with dust-laden spines",
            "Card catalogs that cough out tiny papers",
            "A reading table with spilled ink forming glyphs",
            "A barred window that reveals a narrow moon",
            "A ladder leaning into a dark alcove"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Books open and their margins curl into pages like tongues",
            "Printed words shift meaning as you read them aloud",
            "A reader's bookmark quivers and then vanishes",
            "Paper shreds coil like little serpents and retreat"
        ],
        "camera": "Quiet over-the-shoulder reads with close macro on page edges and ink flow",
        "accents": [
            "warm lamplight on paper fibers and ink speculars",
            "soft grain to emphasize age and tactility"
        ],
        "mood": "intellectual grotesque",
        "lighting": "warm desk pools amid heavy subterranean shade",
        "style": "bibliophile horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "A corn maze where stalks rearrange into living corridors",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Tall corn towering above head height",
            "Mist hugging the ground at night",
            "A central clearing with a lone scarecrow",
            "Rustic signs pointing to nowhere",
            "A harvest moon casting long, skeletal shadows"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Rows rearrange behind you as if guiding you away",
            "A distant rustle suggests something large moving within",
            "A phone loses signal and then shows a strange photo",
            "Scarecrow eyes glint and follow the intruder"
        ],
        "camera": "Handheld with subjective turns and occasional vertigo tilts",
        "accents": [
            "stalk silk micro-detail with dewy rim-light",
            "harvest moon glow creating deep elongated shadows"
        ],
        "mood": "lost-in-nature dread",
        "lighting": "nighttime moonlight with patchy farm light",
        "style": "agricultural nightmare"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Monsters",
        "scene": "An abandoned school gym where shadows collect into a single mass",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Bleacher rows coated in dust",
            "A scoreboard frozen mid-count",
            "A basketball hoop with a net that sways though no breeze",
            "A gymbag zipped with something moving inside",
            "Locker rows with one set left open"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Shadows peel from the walls and fold into a central shape",
            "A bouncing ball continues unseen after being thrown",
            "Echoes return distorted and layered",
            "Dust forms patterns that crawl toward the center"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide gym sweep with tight handheld inserts on lockers and dust motes",
        "accents": [
            "waxed floor speculars with soft bloom",
            "cool fluorescent edge highlights"
        ],
        "mood": "adolescent dread",
        "lighting": "dimmed gym lights with long shadow corridors",
        "style": "schoolhouse horror"
    }
]