Dark Story Reels
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Dark Story Reels
Claude writes and draws a 60 to 80 second creepy "He did X" story reel: fast greyscale sketches, a free local narrator and word-by-word captions.
Download the skilldark-story-reels.zip · 591 KBFree, MIT licence. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Install in 4 steps
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Unzip it. Inside dark-story-reels-kit is a folder called dark-story-reels (the one with SKILL.md). Move that folder into your Claude Code skills folder:
Mac / Linux~/.claude/skills/Windows%USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ - 2
Make an empty folder for your reel and open Claude Code in it.
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Ask for a reel:
Or describe your own: "make a dark story reel about a man who ...". The first run installs the free tools by itself (about 900 MB, once).make a dark story reel, you pick the story - 4
Approve the script and the drawings. Claude records the voice, makes the sound, renders both cuts and checks them.
What it makes
He Practiced Smiling In The Mirror Every Morning. 63 seconds, written, drawn and built entirely by this skill, with the free voice.
- An original, made-up "He did X" story: the act first, 4 to 6 escalation steps, a grim twist in the last line
- Greyscale sketch drawings Claude draws itself, with a new picture about every second
- A free local narrator, quoted lines in a second voice, and captions on every word
- A dark sound bed, a heartbeat and low hits, all made in code
- A 1080x1920 master for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, plus a 7:8 cut for X under 10 MB
- Or, if you ask, one image prompt per shot for an image tool you already have
You need
- A Claude subscription (Claude Code comes with Pro and Max)
- Python 3.10 or newer
- Any normal computer. No graphics card, no API keys
Time
About an hour, mostly Claude writing the story and drawing it. The machine time is 5 to 7 minutes.
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