An animated horror anthology series that is as incredibly dark, twisted, macabre, sinister and horrific as can be. Top it off, it will actually be scary, disturbing and straight-up horror whenever it wants to be which will be all the time.
The Girl With Nine Lives — a shy, timid and socially awkward teen girl is tricked into having the nine lives of a cat by a mad witch and becomes a carnival sideshow sensation as the 'Girl Who Can't Die'. As her success becomes more and more grand however, her life falls apart as she becomes an egotistical, vain, self-centered, spoiled rich princess who alienates and pushes away all of her friends and family. It's then until her last act where her closest friend finally walks away wanting nothing to do with her and her mother, heartbroken, leaves her daughter to be by herself, that she realizes all too late that she may have miscounted how many lives she actually has.
Fleshhouse — a struggling blue collar married couple own a just as struggling restaurant that's about to be closed down by their landlord and want what's nothing but the best for their kids (one of whom is disabled). It's then that a longtime and close but strange partner/friend of theirs offers the answer to their solutions that could save their restaurant - a secret recipe and a special supply of steak with such a delectable taste to it and one that harbors a horrifying and dark secret.
The Fogs Of War — Set in 1916 during WWII, several lost squads of soldiers converge and must hide out in a mysterious and abandoned maze-like series of trenches and tunnels that they discover far too late and rather horrifyingly so that the entire place is a gateway to hell that has opened by accident due to the war on earth. Now the soldiers all must fight for their lives and through the night from demons - each of whom represents their deepest, darkest and most personal fears - from dragging them into hell itself for their sins.
Something Wicked On The Runway Shoot — The mother of an aspiring model takes her daughter to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in Los Angeles for a potential membership and mentor under the hugely successful and gorgeous but mysterious and camera-shy Ruth Rose. Therefore, it's revealed that the mother was once an up-and-coming model on her way to fame until she turned it down to start a family with her child.... and it's also revealed the true, dark, grotesque, siamese secret of Ruth Rose.
Fat Tuesday — a man still-in grieving from the tragic death of his wife, moves himself and his three kids to New Orleans as a chance to start over and begin a new life after her death affected every one of them. However in trying to start anew, they all find themselves entangled in a bizarre voodoo ritual that includes their own family history with the man's own father and deceased wife stuck between two worlds as horrifying zombies emerge from the deep and thick swamp with cravings for flesh.
• With the animation style, I picture it being a good, strong cross between Laura Hollingsworth's art for Keeper Of The Lost Cities, Tony Moore's art for the first six issues of The Walking Dead and Charlie Adlard's art for the entirety of The Walking Dead. It would fit in perfectly with the stories I'm trying to tell with this here.
• All of the stories will have plenty of things in common with each other despite being very different one from the other. Not only are they all just as dark, twisted, mean, cynical, horrific and surprisingly genuinely heartfelt at times but they're also very character driven. All of the events that happen happen because of the character or characters' actions, it's not something weird or fucked up happening to someone randomly. It's always that the characters did something that caused this event to happen to them and of course, there are repercussions so they have absolutely no one to blame but themselves since they caused this to happen to them and them only.
• Another things is that with some definite exceptions here and there, basically sprinkled in every now and then, almost all of the stories or episodes will have bad endings but in unconventional ways. What I mean by that is that there's always a real, true, genuine moment of victory where the character or characters defeat the wendigo or break the demented curse or seal the sandman whose been harvesting childrens' souls away so he can never harm anyone ever again....
But then there's always that extra thing that immediately happens after that goes "Nope!" which ends with an equally effective, memorable and haunting final image to end on.
• The sprinkled in happy endings however are the ones that feel the most earned where the character or characters realize the errors of their ways and come out as better people so the happy ending feels both warranted and deserving.
However, all of that somehow has got nothing on this right here —
• When an episode or "story" ends, it dissolves into a campfire to be revealed that the episode was in fact a campfire tale all along told by either a cynically dry yet charismatic at the same time magician named Nicolas Channing (voiced by and directly modeled after Ryan Beil) or a character from a piece of media such as Demona, Zhalia Moon, Mikasa Ackerman, M.O.M., Badger, Ratboy etc.