Exit 8

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A man with a life-changing decision to make finds himself trapped in an underground passage with no beginning and no end — a liminal space where reality shifts in small, almost imperceptible ways each time he walks through. Adapted from the cult indie horror game, Kawamura transforms the premise into a surreal novelization about the choices that loop us back to the same place and the courage required to finally exit. From the author of If Cats Disappeared from the World, this is another story about what we'd sacrifice for a chance to start over. The horror is quiet and existential — not monsters but repetition, not danger but the terrifying possibility that you've been walking in circles your whole life. A novel about finding the exit — in an underground passage, in a life, in the patterns we mistake for progress.