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Psychological Horror in Mystery, Thriller, Suspense & Crime
Over the 28 weeks to 2026-08-24 we counted 59 reader-demand mentions of Psychological Horror in Mystery, Thriller, Suspense & Crime — 0.44% of every trope mention we counted in the lane, ranking it #26 of 60. Rising.
Reader-demand mentions59counted in Mystery, Thriller, Suspense & Crime, 2026-02-16 to 2026-08-24
Share of the lane0.44%of 13,323 trope mentions counted in this lane
Rank in this lane#26of 60 tropes we publish for Mystery, Thriller, Suspense & Crime
DirectionRising0.49% of Mystery, Thriller, Suspense & Crime trope mentions in the last 12 weeks, against 0.35% in the 12 weeks before that — a rise of 42% in share
How much evidence is behind that? That is a small sample — 59 mentions across 23 of the 28 weeks. Read it as a hint, not a verdict. Scarcity of asks is itself a finding: it can mean a niche nobody is serving, or a niche nobody wants.
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Mentions are counted rows, not estimates and not a model. We read reader demand from Goodreads reviews and shelves, parsed reader requests, BookTok video metadata and Reddit, resolve each one to a subgenre lane and to tropes in our published taxonomy, and total them by week. This page shows the 28 weeks from 2026-02-16 to 2026-08-24; Psychological Horror appeared in 23 of the 28.
Only tropes from our canonical taxonomy of 1,167 appear here, and only the 339 of them that clear our publication floor somewhere. Raw scrape labels are excluded on purpose: publish those and the same trope ends up listed twice under two spellings and the ranking becomes fiction.
Direction is a change in share, never a raw weekly move, because a genre that simply gets busier would otherwise make every trope in it look like it is rising. We state no direction at all unless each 12-week band holds at least 10 mentions and the two hold 30 between them — a trope that went from two mentions to forty is a small number moving, not a trend.
Figures restate each time the corpus is recounted. This page: 2026-09-07.
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