AI-generated film · fiction
No Fourth Floor
You worked late again. You’re the last person in the building to come home.
The tower went up in 2009, and most of the tenants are Chinese. The elevator buttons count 1, 2, 3, then jump to 5. Above 12, the next button is 15. You live in 1502. The day you signed the lease, your landlady, Mrs. Chan, laughed: “All the unlucky numbers are gone. You’ll sleep better.”
You press 15 and lean against the stainless steel wall, watching the floor numbers climb.
1. 2. 3.
The display flickers black. The elevator stops.
When the doors open, the light outside is evening light, warm and yellow, slanting in from the window at the end of the hall. The air smells like something you know by heart: the lotus root and pork rib soup your mom simmers all afternoon.
But in Vancouver, it’s 3:04 in the morning.
A young man is standing in the middle of the hallway in a faded old hoodie. He’s holding a key. The tag on it reads 1502.
That’s your door.
An interactive horror story with four endings
No Fourth Floor is a choose-your-own-adventure horror story you play in the browser. You make every choice, collect clues in a notebook, and the clues you are holding decide which endings are open to you.
It grew out of something real: elevator panels in many Vancouver towers jump from 3 to 5. The story is fiction. The fact-checked file on the missing floors is linked below.
Why do buildings skip the 4th floor? The Vancouver rule, explained →
Questions people ask
Is No Fourth Floor free?
The first chapter is free. US$4.99 unlocks chapters two to four and all four endings with an unlock code. The full story is also included in the US$19.99 Archive Pass. Both are one-time purchases.
Is it a choose-your-own-adventure horror story?
Yes. There is no single path: your choices and the clues you find change what happens and how it ends.
How scary is it?
It is suspense, not gore: an empty building at three in the morning and an elevator that should not stop where it does.