Psychological Thriller Skill

You will not be certain of anything. That's the point.

This Claude skill file is pre-built for psychological thriller — controlled, claustrophobic fiction where the dread accumulates through precision rather than shock, the narrator's reliability is the central question, and the reader finishes the book slightly less certain that the world is stable.

What's already built in: brand promise and reader expectations for the genre, techniques for building dread through accumulation (not gore), a detailed guide to the unreliable narrator and the four types of unreliability, the re-readable test (every scene should mean something different after the revelation), protagonist and antagonist archetypes, signature tropes (the confined space, the rational man in an irrational situation, the slow revelation), hard limits including the no-villain-who's-just-crazy rule, and a scene checklist.

No romance requirement and no heat calibration. Add your specific setting, your protagonist's expertise, your subgenre calibration, and your narrative voice on the unreliability spectrum, and this skill becomes entirely yours.

Includes the skill file plus the complete Build Your Pen Name Skill guide, blank skill template, and Quick-Start Prompt Sheet.