There are dioramas. And then there are die-o-ramas.

When Steve Jackson, known on Reddit as CapJax, posted 13 images to the site under the headline “My Wife Makes Dioramas” a few weeks ago, the response was overwhelming: thousands of pageviews and hundreds of comments within the first day. And the deluge continues, as the pictures have been viewed almost 5 million times.

The feedback could be sorted into two groups, said Abby Goldman, the wife in question. “At first it was, ‘dude you're wife's messed up.’ Then, ‘I'm in love with your wife,’” she said. “We have a very happy marriage.”

What makes her dioramas, typically boring, miniature recreations of historical events better left to museums, so fascinating? Goldman’s sense of humor is fairly twisted. After finding some sites dedicated to model train scenes, Goldman decided to pervert these wholesome scenes of a family at a carnival or tourists taking pictures by making her own miniatures. She began ordering sets of figurines from mostly German companies and frequenting Home Depot to buy an increasingly elaborate set of tools —a giant saw to cut foam, goggles with magnification —to construct tiny blood-drenched murder scenes.