[
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Fog-filled graveyard at midnight with moonlight leaking through bare branches",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Fog-filled graveyard at midnight with moonlight leaking through bare branches",
            "Moss-covered headstones tilting in the mist",
            "A broken iron gate swinging slowly",
            "Shadows pooling under an ancient yew",
            "A faint lantern glow near a crypt"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Mists coalesce into the vague suggestion of a figure",
            "Cold gusts push whispers through the grass",
            "A lantern guttering then brightening as if answered",
            "A single mournful bell tolls with no visible source"
        ],
        "camera": "Low dolly between headstones with shallow depth and slow pull-outs",
        "accents": [
            "cold rim mist to separate forms",
            "soft silver micro-highlights on dew and stone"
        ],
        "mood": "quiet melancholy",
        "lighting": "pale moon shafts with diffuse fog fill",
        "style": "classic spectral vignette"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Empty train carriage at dusk where footprints appear on the dusty floor",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Empty train carriage at dusk where footprints appear on the dusty floor",
            "Tattered upholstery and frosted windows",
            "A single ticket fluttering down the aisle",
            "Overhead lights flickering in sequence",
            "A station platform seen blurred outside"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Invisible footsteps mapping a path between seats",
            "A pocket watch clangs softly then stops",
            "Steam drifts from the old kettle though it's cold",
            "Window reflections show someone sitting when none are present"
        ],
        "camera": "Steady lateral rack along the aisle with close seat inserts",
        "accents": [
            "warm film-scrape micro-highlights to emphasize old metal",
            "dust micro-highlights in shafted light"
        ],
        "mood": "transported unease",
        "lighting": "dim sunset bleed with cold interior flashes",
        "style": "transient haunt"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Seaside lighthouse keeper's room where a rocking chair moves though empty",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Seaside lighthouse keeper's room where a rocking chair moves though empty",
            "Salt-streaked glass and maps pinned to plaster",
            "A half-filled cup of tea cooling on a sill",
            "Ragged curtains lashing in a distant gale",
            "A brass oil lamp on a table"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Chair swings with a slow, human rhythm",
            "Pages of a logbook flip to an entry dated decades prior",
            "A distant foghorn answers an inaudible call",
            "A faint handprint briefly appears on the glass"
        ],
        "camera": "Close interior with wide reveal to the lamp-lit shore",
        "accents": [
            "warm lamp micro-highlights contrasting salt-cold fills",
            "textured micro-highlights on leather-bound logbook"
        ],
        "mood": "resigned longing",
        "lighting": "warm interior lamplight vs cold stormy exterior",
        "style": "maritime spectral"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Old hospital corridor with peeling paint and the distant echo of a child humming",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Old hospital corridor with peeling paint and the distant echo of a child humming",
            "Wheelchairs lined unnaturally still",
            "Faded signage and cracked tiles",
            "Flicker of fluorescent panels",
            "A nurse's cap lying solitary on a bench"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Trolleys wheel themselves a few inches then stop",
            "Paging system whispers fragments of names",
            "A corridor light pulses in a heartbeat rhythm",
            "A small shoe rolls slowly across the floor"
        ],
        "camera": "Tracking low with subtle handheld jitter and sudden tight inserts",
        "accents": [
            "clinical speculars on metal surfaces",
            "soft shadow micro-highlights to emphasize texture"
        ],
        "mood": "disturbed quiet",
        "lighting": "cold fluorescent strobe with deep side shadow",
        "style": "medical haunt"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Abandoned school at dusk where chalk drawings smear and reappear",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Abandoned school at dusk where chalk drawings smear and reappear",
            "Broken classroom windows and a swinging clock",
            "Desks arranged like silent witnesses",
            "A faint school bell echoing intermittently",
            "Lost backpacks tangled in hallway shadows"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Chalk scrawl rearranges into names and dates",
            "A desk drawer opens revealing an old note",
            "A single page of the roll-call list flutters to the floor",
            "A chalk handprint appears and slowly fades"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide establishing of classroom then close macro on chalk lines",
        "accents": [
            "soft pastely micro-highlights on chalk dust",
            "paper micro-highlights on aged notes"
        ],
        "mood": "nostalgic unease",
        "lighting": "low evening amber with cool interior fills",
        "style": "childhood-tinged haunt"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Suburban basement where a projector plays a looped silent home video of a family",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Suburban basement where a projector plays a looped silent home video of a family",
            "Mismatched furniture and a tarp hanging",
            "A string of retro holiday lights dimly glowing",
            "A stack of old videotapes labeled in handwriting",
            "A child's drawing taped to a wall"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Projected images flicker to show a figure that wasn't in the original tape",
            "A laugh track plays from nowhere and cuts",
            "Tape rewinds by itself partway",
            "Objects in the room subtly change between loops"
        ],
        "camera": "Low, grainy handheld to match lo-fi projection aesthetic",
        "accents": [
            "projector-glow micro-highlights on dust motes",
            "warm tape-speck micro-highlights"
        ],
        "mood": "uncanny replay",
        "lighting": "projector amber glow against cool basement shadow",
        "style": "analog spectral study"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Mountain cabin where snow piles up outside while footprints lead from inside to nowhere",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Mountain cabin where snow piles up outside while footprints lead from inside to nowhere",
            "Icicles hanging like teeth from the eaves",
            "A coal stove still warm though unused",
            "A rope bridge creaking out the back",
            "A child's mitten found in the snow"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Footprints walk to the tree-line and dissolve in the snow",
            "A lantern swings though there is no wind",
            "Breath appears on cold glass in a fleeting script",
            "Someone's scarf flutters past a window where no one stands"
        ],
        "camera": "Steady exterior to intimate interior transitions with slow reveal",
        "accents": [
            "crisp snow micro-highlights on edges",
            "warm ember micro-highlights inside"
        ],
        "mood": "lonely frost-bound sorrow",
        "lighting": "cold blue exterior with warm interior pocket",
        "style": "isolation ghost story"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Empty theatre where a phantom audience applauds at an unseen performance",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Empty theatre where a phantom audience applauds at an unseen performance",
            "Velvet seats faded and dust-coated",
            "A stage with a single spotlight and a toppled mic",
            "Playbills scattered in aisles",
            "Backstage ropes and a sagging curtain"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Polite applause rises without visible hands",
            "Stage lights flicker to life and dim in timed beats",
            "A lone shoe glides across the stage and stops center",
            "A whisper of lines drifts from the wings"
        ],
        "camera": "Crane down the aisle to stage with dramatic wide then close insert",
        "accents": [
            "spot micro-highlights on dust motes",
            "velvet micro-highlights on seat textures"
        ],
        "mood": "performative melancholy",
        "lighting": "spotlight contrast with deep auditorium shadow",
        "style": "theatrical haunt"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Riverbank at dawn where ghostly lanterns float upriver against the current",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Riverbank at dawn where ghostly lanterns float upriver against the current",
            "Willow branches dipping into mist",
            "Old rowboats moored and half-sunken",
            "A distant, slow funeral procession silhouette",
            "A single willow-wreath drifting past"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Lanterns drift upstream as if following invisible hands",
            "Soft chanting echoes from both banks",
            "Ripples form ephemeral faces on the water",
            "A wreath settles and slowly sinks without disturbance"
        ],
        "camera": "Aerial glide along the river with low waterline cutaways",
        "accents": [
            "warm lantern micro-highlights on water",
            "mist micro-highlights to shape faces"
        ],
        "mood": "ritualized mourning",
        "lighting": "pale dawn with warm floating accents",
        "style": "ceremonial spectral"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Deserted asylum courtyard where wind carries the echo of institutional hymns",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Deserted asylum courtyard where wind carries the echo of institutional hymns",
            "High brick walls and barbed wire outline",
            "Abandoned wheelchairs and empty bedsheets",
            "A lone swing creaking slowly",
            "Paint peeling from metal railings"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Distant hymn fragments assemble into a full melody then dissolve",
            "A door clacks and then remains ajar",
            "Faint shadowy figures pace the perimeter for a breath",
            "A child's drawing is pinned again and again to the fence"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow circular crane with tight cell-block close-ups",
        "accents": [
            "cold institutional micro-highlights on metal",
            "flaky paint micro-highlights on brick"
        ],
        "mood": "institutional sorrow",
        "lighting": "muted gray with cold spot accents",
        "style": "haunt of memory"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Old mill where the wheel turns though there's no water, and flour dust makes shapes",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Old mill where the wheel turns though there's no water, and flour dust makes shapes",
            "Timbered beams and a millstone half-buried",
            "Sacks of flour rippling though still",
            "A suspended pulley gently oscillating",
            "A boarded grain chute slightly ajar"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Wheel rotates at a lazy pace with no apparent cause",
            "Flour dust drifts into ghostly figures that then collapse",
            "A grain chute coughs and releases a single kernel",
            "A faint child's handprint appears in flour on the floor"
        ],
        "camera": "Mechanical steady with rhythmic cuts synced to wheel turns",
        "accents": [
            "powder micro-highlights on moving parts",
            "wood micro-highlights on beam textures"
        ],
        "mood": "man-made echo",
        "lighting": "warm dust-laden shafts across dark interior",
        "style": "industrial haunt"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Submerged village where windows glow beneath the lake surface",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Submerged village where windows glow beneath the lake surface",
            "Bell tower ghosting under glassy water",
            "Reeds swaying over rooftops",
            "Placards half-exposed at the bank",
            "Fish weaving through window frames"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Lighted windows pulse as if people are moving within",
            "Bubbles crest into faces then pop",
            "A submerged door opens to reveal a dark hall",
            "Ripples write words briefly on the water surface"
        ],
        "camera": "Underwater glide transitioning to exterior ripple reflections",
        "accents": [
            "cool water micro-highlights on glass",
            "soft glow micro-highlights from windows"
        ],
        "mood": "submerged memory",
        "lighting": "deep cool underwater with warm interior glows",
        "style": "ethereal aquatic haunt"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Market square at twilight where mannequins step slowly from shopfronts",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Market square at twilight where mannequins step slowly from shopfronts",
            "Tattered awnings and empty stalls",
            "A fountain with no water but echoing splashes",
            "A clock tower chiming out of sync",
            "Discarded scarves and gloves scattered"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Mannequins tilt and walk a few hesitant paces",
            "Shop windows fog with breath even when closed",
            "A scarf wraps itself around a lamppost then unfurls",
            "A vendor's cart rattles though no wind blows"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide city square with rapid shopfront cuts and slow-motion reveals",
        "accents": [
            "shopglass micro-highlights to reflect figures",
            "fabric micro-highlights on fluttering scarves"
        ],
        "mood": "urban uncanny",
        "lighting": "twilight neon mixed with lamplight",
        "style": "street-level spectral"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Church with pews full of translucent worshippers frozen mid-prayer",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Church with pews full of translucent worshippers frozen mid-prayer",
            "Stained-glass windows throwing colored shards",
            "A slow incense haze hovering",
            "A cracked hymnal left open",
            "A choir loft empty but for echoing voices"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Prayer hands move in slow-motion then halt",
            "Organ pipes breathe a single sustained tone",
            "Candles flare and extinguish in sequence",
            "A hymn is sung backwards faintly"
        ],
        "camera": "Long reverent push up the nave with close stained-glass detail",
        "accents": [
            "colored glass micro-highlights on dust",
            "wax micro-highlights on candle drips"
        ],
        "mood": "sacred unease",
        "lighting": "filtered colored shafts with dim interior fill",
        "style": "religious spectral"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Orphanage playroom at dusk where toys reposition themselves in small games",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Orphanage playroom at dusk where toys reposition themselves in small games",
            "A faded hopscotch marking on the floor",
            "Rows of small beds visible through a doorway",
            "A vintage carousel horse tilted in a corner",
            "A mobile of stars slowly turning"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Toys form a circle then scatter into a pattern",
            "A music box plays a single scratchy tune once and stops",
            "A child's book opens to reveal a fresh scribble",
            "Soft laughter bubbles at the edge of hearing"
        ],
        "camera": "Playful low-angle with panning to each toy's micro-interaction",
        "accents": [
            "toy micro-highlights to emphasize plastic gloss",
            "wood micro-highlights on carousel texture"
        ],
        "mood": "melancholic play",
        "lighting": "dusk warm with cool corners",
        "style": "innocent-turned-uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Castle battlement where spectral soldiers stand a hollow watch",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Castle battlement where spectral soldiers stand a hollow watch",
            "Moonlit crenellations and banners in tatters",
            "A distant siege-scarred field",
            "Echoes of clanging armor",
            "Ravens perching on arrow slits"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Armored phantoms march in slow rotation then dissolve",
            "A trumpet call echoes and fades into static",
            "Footsteps pass over the parapet though no one is visible",
            "Torches flare cold blue then return to embers"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide epic with tight soldier-profile inserts",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-highlights on armor edges",
            "cold flame micro-highlights on torch tips"
        ],
        "mood": "honored sorrow",
        "lighting": "cold moonlit contrast with embers",
        "style": "historical spectral tableau"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ghosts",
        "scene": "Final corridor: a hallway of mirrors reflecting versions of you that move independently",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Final corridor: a hallway of mirrors reflecting versions of you that move independently",
            "Long carpet runner and ornate sconces",
            "Mirrored frames that age differently",
            "A distant door at the end glowing faintly",
            "A faint perfume that is not yours"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Reflections gesture out of sync with the viewer",
            "A mirror fogs to reveal a different room inside",
            "A reflected self steps forward while you stand still",
            "Mirrors subtly rearrange to form a path"
        ],
        "camera": "Tracking through reflections with uncanny angle shifts",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-highlights to accent reflection edges",
            "warm sconce micro-highlights for depth"
        ],
        "mood": "self-uncertainty",
        "lighting": "mixed warm sconces with cold reflective edges",
        "style": "psychic closing tableau"
    }
]