On the 27th October 2014

a boy was shot and a girl drowned.

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 In a desperate search for his forgotten past, John “Jay” Doe annually revisits the river he was dredged from, searching for the figure of his recurring nightmares: a girl with ebony-black hair and emerald-green eyes, drowning in the river beside him.

However, when he returns four years later, Jay finds an Eldritch horror who looks nothing like the girl he remembers… and she claims to have shot him in the head.

Caught between false copies, liminal spaces, and a doomsday society investigating parallel realities, Jay Doe must choose whether to defend his worst mistakes, or allow the world to collapse as a consequence of their actions on...
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“In October” is a cosmic-horror speculative fiction merged with unconventional romance, involving structure-breaking formatting, hidden codes, greyscale words and interactive puzzles that immerse readers in a novel-level ARG (alternate reality game).

 

Featuring beautiful illustrations, gorgeous formatting, and real-life events from the Russian dark web.