So what's your horror story pitches!

I have more than two but I'll keep them short and just trust nobody here plunders them:

First I have sorta my take on the domestic based thriller novels like Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, etc. Loosely modeled on Rear Window, it's about a young short fiction author with narcolepsy who begins to suspect a recently moved in neighbor to be a murderer. A simple, pretty standard premise that's ripe for suspense and character drama, as well as the representation of a nuerodivernce that doesn't get much media representation, although I am proposing this knowing the potential risk that comes from using the vulnerabilities of one's disability as a source of tension.

A potential sister story for the first, this one tells of a young man with aspirations of opening a restaurant but is poorly skilled in business and financing and so hires an accountant to help him keep track of his receipts and bank accounts. However, overtime multiple discrepancies begin to show, revealing multiple drops in his savings and purchases he knows he never made, leading him to suspect that this accountant of his is stealing from him and cooking his books somehow. Like the first one it's a typical good vs evil story centered around the relationship between two characters and their intellectual chess battle but with a very different context and dynamic.

This next idea is a bit outside the box, it's a genre hybrid between gothic fiction and sword and sorcery. It's about a small sorta d&d like party of Rangers hired by a farmer to save her husband who's been captured by minotaurs. The surprise is that the husband is a young runty orc, and in this world they had recently fallen after centuries of imperial conquest. But they escaped and found refuge in an ornate palace owned by a clan of moon elves who offers them protection. But while the vengful minotaurs seige the castle, the party becomes suspicious of their hosts and their actual intentions. So a gothic horror about magic, whimsy, romance, prejudice, sex, violence and everything else awesome for genre nerds like me.

Now this one idea I'm having is a bit pushing it as it's not strictly horror but it's very horror adjacent and would fit right in. A dramatic anthology of fairytale retellings that seek to be marginally more accurate adaptations of their written recorded sources and dramatic tones that keep or put larger emphasis on their adult content. The overall age demographic I've not decided but I guess in general 12 and up type thing but the point of this is my attempt, in small part, to create modern media representations of fairy stories with dignity. Like at the time of writing

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