The Crossing

There is a berth on the passenger list, and it is yours. The Crossing opens on a great liner held forever at the last night of her sinking, the band still playing in the first-class lounge, the deck tilting by slow degrees no one will name, and a crossing the Company has been making without you. All you have to do is lie back in the warm dark and let the night hold you. All you have to do is stay.

The Crossing is Book Four of ENCORE, a choose-your-path horror. The same Curator runs the passage; the same company of the dead is recast into a new production, this one cold and vast and very still. Bring the character you built in The Haunt, The Vigil, and The Understudy, and the night remembers what you carried, who you are, and what you have already proven you will and will not do.

You read by deciding. Take the lifeboat or wave it off. Keep counting the hours or let the lullaby in. Your choices decide which of the book’s endings the water gives you, and the way out, the true one, asks whether you can let her finish and surface alone into the cold morning, and all the years.

If you like Fighting Fantasy or Choose Your Own Adventure, if you like interactive horror, if you like the cold anthology dread of American Horror Story, this is built for you.

▶ Play it free in your browser, then keep the ebook or paperback. 181 numbered sections, 38 endings. The interactive audiobook follows.