Splatterpunk. Two characters, one question (female antihero, split self).
This is NOT an excerpt from my novel. I'm not sharing my writing. I'm describing a concept and asking whether the premise is interesting.
Hello everyone. I am working on a novel in the genres of psychological horror, thriller, crime drama, and splatterpunk. It is a transgressive, hyperbolized allegory about cruelty, revenge, and the decline of morality and human degradation. I am considering two titles: Deadborn (or Stillborn) and A Fall of Man.
Sarah de Constantini (25) - Italian American. Schizotypal disorder, severe chronic PTSD, brain contusion. Former coroner's assistant and embalmer. Criminal record: mass killings, contract murders, torture, lynching, desecration of bodies. Works as a "cleaner" for an English crime faction. Her body is a document of trauma.
Her unconscious manifests as a hallucination wearing her dead father's face, but it is not him. It is Sarah herself. Another version of her. Same person, different mask. The father's image is not accidental: it carries the original wound, the lost authority, the shattered identity. She is being followed by herself.
Vincent de Constantini (30) - her adoptive older brother, Peruvian American. Narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cocaine addict. Former drug trafficker and cartel leader. Registered sex offender. Obsessed with power and media production (snuff, hardcore porn). He betrays Sarah, leaves her for dead, and disappears. She hunts him.
The core ideas:
Revenge as a Pyrrhic victory, it doesn't bring peace, only deeper destruction. We saw this in the original Oldboy.
"God is dead", morality collapsed, the world is built by the Devil.
The split self: the protagonist's unconscious wears the face of her dead father, but it is her own other half, a psychopomp leading her toward death as grace
My question to you (I would like to get honest feedback):
Will this world, these characters, and this level of darkness be interesting to modern readers (and maybe viewers?). Not "is it good," but simply: is there a niche for this? Or is it too extreme, too niche, to bother with?
I don't have a cover or concept art, but there are a few fan-art pieces.