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illustration to limited edition of “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix, 2026

Kane Pixels: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the backrooms Pixels: it's filmed entirely in the Hilton Stamford Hotel in Stamford Connecticut Pixels: if you know you know

Poe: we lost too many good people there King: i think mark danielewski is still lost in the lamp room

Pixels: so this story takes place in 1990 Grady Hendrix: radical, dude Pixels: because we want the gritty analog camcorder found footage aesthetic Hendrix: [flips skateboard] bitchin'!

Pixels: it's about a failing furniture store owner who discovers a secret dimension of free, self-replicating furniture Pixels: just the thing you would think he would need to revitalize his failing business Pixels: but it doesn't go there

Pixels: its called the backrooms and it's a labyrinth of random, procedurally generated backrooms King: Oh! is it reflective of the furniture store guy's mental state? Pixels: haha what no this isn't silent hill

Pixels: the backrooms is symbolic of our inability to break out of patterns of self-defeating behavior Pixels: or maybe it's indicative of our destructively sentimental attachment to place Pixels: there hasn't been such a melange of random thematically resonant imagery since A Cure for Wellness

Pixels: the furniture store owner decides to explore but there's danger in the backrooms Koontz: he should call on the backrooms red cross Pixels: the what Koontz: they have a partnership with the Backroom colonists at M.E.G. and the Republic of Aurielle Pixels: Pixels: what

Koontz: you know, the republic of Aurielle Koontz: they're only one of the biggest factions in the backrooms Koontz: a polity going back to the Korthie Casiagen War Pixels: Poe: oh yeah dean is really into the lore Poe: he's been reading the backrooms wiki Pixels: the backrooms what

Poe: yeah there's a whole wiki Poe: kids love lore so they made a enough to fill a wiki Pixels: oh cool Pixels: cool cool cool Pixels: cuz yeah cuz there's nothing that really improves liminal horror like overexplaining it

Koontz: anyway, you might encounter entity 76 (The Dribbler) on level 97 but you won't have to worry if you picked up the power up (fragmented doedecahedron) on level 45 Pixels: Koontz: but first you'll want to obtain the dreamstone (object 98) from the sayer of time (entity 12) Pixels:

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I think we’re alone now, there doesn’t seem to be anyone around.

‘It’s April 1988 and the world belongs to them’

BOOKS in 2026