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Almost every branch of every story in Choose Your Own Adventure books ended with bold, centered text that said:

     THE END
But there was one story I vaguely recall where if you made the "wrong" choice, you fell into a bottomless pit (the books were always in the second person) and you kept falling and falling, forever, and the text said:

    THERE IS NO END
I still remember the chills I got reading this. I wonder how kids these days get their introduction to existential horror?


Much more horrifying: you are (rather unexpectedly) bewitched into eternally picking up pieces of a broken china cat!

#5 The Mystery of Chimney Rock, page 60: https://archive.org/details/mysteryofchimney00pack/page/60


A moment ago I was a fifty year old man, but thanks to your comment, I am a stricken 10 year old again.




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