Horror lane score: opportunity 39/100 (rank 39 of 48), greenlight band Strong-buy, 5,129 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
| Component | Percentile in this lane |
|---|---|
| Reader demand | 28th |
| Revenue | 79th |
| Scarcity (how little is published against that demand) | 23th |
| Momentum | 23th |
Counted across 92 titles in this lane — 100% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| steamy | 87% |
| spicy | 11% |
| explicit | 1% |
| dark | 1% |
| Median Kindle length | 316 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 330 pages |
| Recent releases | 396 pages (was 295) |
| Length is trending | longer |
| Novella-length share, recent | 12% (was 19%) |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 2,885,748 Goodreads reviews, 1,772,569 shelf signals, 1,975,579 parsed reader demand signals and 81,308 BookTok videos, across 22,717 trope-tagged titles and 4,858 distinct tropes in 139 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.
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