Horror lane score: opportunity 54/100 (rank 20 of 51), greenlight band Strong-buy, 4,762 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
| Component | Percentile in this lane |
|---|---|
| Reader demand | 68th |
| Revenue | 80th |
| Scarcity (how little is published against that demand) | 8th |
| Momentum | 54th |
Counted across 3,642 titles in this lane — 90% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| dark | 74% |
| sweet | 9% |
| explicit | 7% |
| spicy | 7% |
| steamy | 2% |
| Median Kindle length | 281 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 293 pages |
| Recent releases | 244 pages (was 384) |
| Length is trending | shorter |
| Novella-length share, recent | 0% (was 0%) |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 4,266,047 Goodreads reviews, 3,209,919 shelf signals, 2,611,142 parsed reader demand signals and 135,257 BookTok videos, across 114,807 trope-tagged titles and 5,098 distinct tropes in 145 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.
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