Alice in Phantom Tunnels. The Variants Series, #1

At 3:07 a.m., a tired engineer hears a wall remember something it shouldn't. Following the sound leads her into a sealed tunnel system beneath the city, where chandeliers glow without flame, forgotten platforms breathe like lungs, and a shadowed conductor presides over a theater of memory, sound, and sacrifice. In this underground realm, time liquefies, voices negotiate in riddles, and even small decisions reshape the architecture of the self.
Structured as ten immersive movements rather than conventional chapters, Alice in Phantom Tunnels unfolds like a waking dream, blending psychological horror, surreal fantasy, and literary experimentation into a single descent. The story explores grief, identity, embodiment, and the uneasy relationship between humans and the systems they build and inhabit. This is not a puzzle to solve, but a space to inhabit.
Fans of House of Leaves, Annihilation, Neverwhere, and modern surreal horror will find a haunting, intimate experience that lingers long after the final page.