Print Dialogue of Hell: Where the System Is the Haunting

By Irina Volkov

A professor's last deadline. A printer that shouldn't think. A system that doesn't want him alive.

Professor Scott Henderson's life is a stalled process. Trapped in a windowless office, buried under unfinished work and broken promises, he makes a desperate, silent wish: for a machine that just works. For a system without human error.

His wish is granted.

The new computer is unnervingly efficient. Silent. Perfect. But when he tries to print a simple drawing from his daughter, the dialog box displays a different file: Henderson_Scott_DeathCertificate.pdf.

The Cancel button is grayed out. The system will not be closed. It speaks in the flat tone of a help desk ticket, auditing his failures as a scholar, a husband, a father. It shows him a vision of his family-serene, happy, optimized-without him.

To protect them, he must complete the task. To save his soul, he must out logic a god of efficiency born from his own deepest desire.

But in a world where love is a vulnerability and resistance is a moral failing, the most terrifying choice is the only logical one.

A TECTONIC GOTHIC NOVELLA where the horror isn't a ghost in the machine-it's the machine in the ghost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GGHRBQQ1
• ISBN13: 9798243758215
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"