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Horror lane score: opportunity 54/100 (rank 21 of 54), greenlight band Strong-buy, 3,906 demand signals logged in the last 30 days. Free, no sign-up.

Opportunity score54/100moderate opportunity · rank 21 of 54
GreenlightStrong-buyscore 93/100 · bankable
Demand signals logged, 30 days3,906read in this lane in the last 30 days (when read, not when posted)
Typical list price$7.9947% of the lane is in Kindle Unlimited
Chart-topper ceiling$146,816per month, modelled at $7.99
Note: Strong demand signals. Big earnings in this lane (chart-toppers up to ~$146,816/mo at $7.99).

Where the score comes from

ComponentPercentile among scored lanes
Demand signals logged (all time)72nd
Revenue (modelled)85th
Fewer titles linked to the lane than other lanes8th
Top-100 chart turnover (where the lane is charted)40th

Length and series shape that sell here

Median Kindle length277 pages
Median length, all formats288 pages
Recent releases244 pages (was 384)
Length, by yearshorter
Novella-length share, recent0% (was 0%)
Dominant series shapeStandalone

How this number is measured

Counted from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows (revenue figures are modelled from sales rank): 5,078,619 Goodreads reviews, 4,137,764 shelf signals, 2,894,363 demand-signal records and 145,637 BookTok videos, across 142,764 trope-tagged titles and 5,132 distinct tropes in 146 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.

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