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Haunted Places #2
The Door
There's a locked door in Nathan's new apartment. At night, it opens.
But Nathan doesn’t know that – until he starts hearing eerie scratching noises coming from behind it. Footsteps resound in his apartment, objects are mysteriously moved out of place, and no matter what he tries, he can’t get the door open. Then one night, the door opens on its own, revealing a long, dark corridor. Nathan is immediately compelled to explore it, going further inside each night, ignoring the distant creaking sounds. By the time he realizes what horrors lie inside the corridor, he becomes trapped in his own apartment, with only one way out – through the corridor.
Every book in the series is a stand-alone story, so read them in any order you like!
But Nathan doesn’t know that – until he starts hearing eerie scratching noises coming from behind it. Footsteps resound in his apartment, objects are mysteriously moved out of place, and no matter what he tries, he can’t get the door open. Then one night, the door opens on its own, revealing a long, dark corridor. Nathan is immediately compelled to explore it, going further inside each night, ignoring the distant creaking sounds. By the time he realizes what horrors lie inside the corridor, he becomes trapped in his own apartment, with only one way out – through the corridor.
Every book in the series is a stand-alone story, so read them in any order you like!
358 pages, Hardcover
Published February 26, 2021
307 people are currently reading
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About the author
Boris Bacic
54 books466 followers"Boris is my favorite author on Nosleep, he's always killing it with his stories!"
"The security guard series is the best one ever!!"
"I love the subtle connection between each story."
"Like R.L. Stine, but better."
"I want to see this book as a Netflix mini-series!"
"No one can scare me like Boris."
Both traditionally and self-published, Boris is a prolific writer whose horror novels often find themselves on the #1 bestselling ranks. With the books he has published, he is quickly becoming a big name in the horror community.
His stories have been narrated by famous YouTube and podcast narrators, including MrCreepypasta, CreepsMcPasta, DrCreepen, etc. His book, Tales of a Security Guard, is currently in the works to become a short film.
"The security guard series is the best one ever!!"
"I love the subtle connection between each story."
"Like R.L. Stine, but better."
"I want to see this book as a Netflix mini-series!"
"No one can scare me like Boris."
Both traditionally and self-published, Boris is a prolific writer whose horror novels often find themselves on the #1 bestselling ranks. With the books he has published, he is quickly becoming a big name in the horror community.
His stories have been narrated by famous YouTube and podcast narrators, including MrCreepypasta, CreepsMcPasta, DrCreepen, etc. His book, Tales of a Security Guard, is currently in the works to become a short film.
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February 28, 2021
The Door - 5/5
By Boris Bacic
"YOU TRY TO DO THE CROSS THING AND IF IT DOESN'T WORK, I'LL SMASH HER WITH THE HAMMER"
This line made me cackle and it has stayed with me since I read this book. This is the first book I have read by this author and it definitely will not be my last.
What starts out as a mysterious locked door, quickly ends up leaving Nathan fighting for survival. Part mystery, with a WHOLE lot of creepy - this book was an absolute delight to read!
Once I started reading this book, I couldn't stop. This book actually creeped me out and left me turning on all the lights in the house, stemmed from a fear of something coming out of one of my locked doors!
Definitely a new author to keep an eye out for!
By Boris Bacic
"YOU TRY TO DO THE CROSS THING AND IF IT DOESN'T WORK, I'LL SMASH HER WITH THE HAMMER"
This line made me cackle and it has stayed with me since I read this book. This is the first book I have read by this author and it definitely will not be my last.
What starts out as a mysterious locked door, quickly ends up leaving Nathan fighting for survival. Part mystery, with a WHOLE lot of creepy - this book was an absolute delight to read!
Once I started reading this book, I couldn't stop. This book actually creeped me out and left me turning on all the lights in the house, stemmed from a fear of something coming out of one of my locked doors!
Definitely a new author to keep an eye out for!
March 12, 2023
I had a hard time with this book. The story felt like it dragged, repeating the same things over and over, and it did not build suspense for me, it just made it hard for me to resume reading after I stopped.
The ending was less than it should have been, feeling like it was tacked on as an afterthought
The ending was less than it should have been, feeling like it was tacked on as an afterthought
November 27, 2020
oh my word, this is the first book by this author that ive read and it won't be the last. I got so caught up reading that when my sleeping daughter next to me moved I screamed. A chilling spooky story. If I ever move somewhere with a locked door, ill be moving straight out again. Well worth a read.
August 2, 2022
Great story really enjoyed it
January 8, 2021
Aman gets a nice apartment at a very inexpensive rate. Only catch is, it has a storage door that won't open.
He has a friend try to open it, pry it or tear it open, but nothing works. Then, at 2:19 am, the door opens into a long hallway. he investigates and finds a strange world inside.
He has a friend try to open it, pry it or tear it open, but nothing works. Then, at 2:19 am, the door opens into a long hallway. he investigates and finds a strange world inside.
March 25, 2022
Too scary. Невероятна книга, но на моменти е толкова ужасяваща, че чак става неприятна. Авторът е голям талант и мисля, че тепърва ще чуваме името му.
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November 8, 2024
This book offers a great sense of adventure while also being creepy AF.
My only complaint was that the origin/lore behind this "door" was kinda mundane and underwhelming.
My only complaint was that the origin/lore behind this "door" was kinda mundane and underwhelming.
May 25, 2021
Atmospheric and eerily spooky!
A strange door that cannot be opened. Where does it lead? What secrets lie behind it? Is it a portal to another dimension, or the road to Hell? Wow, this was a real roller coaster of a read. A story that had me hooked from the very beginning right through to the very end. Highly recommended!
A strange door that cannot be opened. Where does it lead? What secrets lie behind it? Is it a portal to another dimension, or the road to Hell? Wow, this was a real roller coaster of a read. A story that had me hooked from the very beginning right through to the very end. Highly recommended!
February 23, 2021
Can't put it down.
Can't put it down. While some of the writing style isn't my taste, there's no doubt the story is a great one and keeps you reading on... I neglected a few chores because I just had to know what would happen next. Well done!
Can't put it down. While some of the writing style isn't my taste, there's no doubt the story is a great one and keeps you reading on... I neglected a few chores because I just had to know what would happen next. Well done!
November 14, 2021
I really enjoyed this book. It was a page Turner for sure
July 12, 2023
Very spooky book, definitely made me nervous when walking down my hall in the dark. I liked this book from beginning to end, it keeps you hooked and has many suspenseful and scary parts throughout.
February 3, 2021
I'm making my way through all of Boris Bacic's books and loving each and every one of them!
This gripping book is about Nathan, a lovely "normal" guy.
Nathan unexpectedly finds more than he could have ever bargained for, behind a locked store cupboard door in his new apartment. Time's running out and his life is in danger, he has to get to the bottom of what's going on!
I absolutely love the fact the Boris always gives all his characters depth. This in turn, ensures that we as readers, properly invest in them and care what happens to them.
LOVE IT!
This gripping book is about Nathan, a lovely "normal" guy.
Nathan unexpectedly finds more than he could have ever bargained for, behind a locked store cupboard door in his new apartment. Time's running out and his life is in danger, he has to get to the bottom of what's going on!
I absolutely love the fact the Boris always gives all his characters depth. This in turn, ensures that we as readers, properly invest in them and care what happens to them.
LOVE IT!
May 10, 2021
Nathan is unhappy with his apartment, so he decides to move. He finds a cheap flat, which is amazing. The thing is, there is a door nobody can open. When he finds out it opens by itself at 2 am he wants to find out, what lays behind it. There is an alternative block of flats with human monsters, all the previous tenants. In the end, he finds out that the flat is feeding on its tenants, because his neighbor once killed his daughter there, who begun to be the living flat herself.
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January 19, 2022
Again... amazing, insane, thrilling, scary, horrifying story... AMAZING! I think I will remove my closest door at the moment. LoL. I really love how this author writes and it seriously should be made into a movie. Three books I've read from this author and I could see it being a hit if its made on film. Fantastic book, a must read! I HIGHLY recommend!
April 22, 2021
Scary
Yow, I wasn't prepared for just how scary this story was. It was like watching a horror movie and you're yelling at the screen, "don't go in there!" Yet they always do. It rarely ever works out for them.
Yow, I wasn't prepared for just how scary this story was. It was like watching a horror movie and you're yelling at the screen, "don't go in there!" Yet they always do. It rarely ever works out for them.
June 18, 2021
4.5. There are some minor mistakes an editor should have caught but that's no big deal- this was a cool story/concept, and the straightforward (but not bland) writing by the author kept me riveted. Well done, author!
July 2, 2021
WOW
Just WOW. This is a very scary book. Just read it. It is so worth the read. You wont be able to put it down. I know I couldnt. One of the scariest Novels ive ever read. I will be reading more of his work from now on.
Just WOW. This is a very scary book. Just read it. It is so worth the read. You wont be able to put it down. I know I couldnt. One of the scariest Novels ive ever read. I will be reading more of his work from now on.
October 23, 2021
This is a remarkable story! Like nothing I've ever read before! It grabs you from the start and the dawning horror draws you in! A locked door in an apartment that cannot be opened... until it opens on its own.. and the unspeakable horrors that are inside!
November 1, 2021
Engaging and worth the read
Well written and very entertaining
Not necessarily scary but a few chi.ls can be found, great story line with so,e well thought out twists. Will definitely be reading other works from this author
Well written and very entertaining
Not necessarily scary but a few chi.ls can be found, great story line with so,e well thought out twists. Will definitely be reading other works from this author
July 28, 2025
The apartment didn’t kill her. Sarah is the apartment. When she died in there, her rage and her sorrow lived and went on to create this… this monster in the storage room. It’s pure evil and it’s hungry.” He took a step towards Nathan. “But it’s still my daughter. And I won’t let you kill her.”
Believing he truly struck the gold mine of apartments, Nathan wasted no time signing his name to a luxury apartment costing only hundreds of dollars a month. With his luck seeming to be on the rise, he shoved a middle finger to his current landlord and his stingy and awful ways and moved into apartment 304. Almost from the moment he stepped foot into those cursed walls he felt something was off. As the days began bleeding together, he began pulling deeper into himself and isolating as the storage door now began opening at exactly 2:19am and closing promptly at 3:19am. At first, he could only stare into the decrepit corridor that mimicked his complex but soon the pull would become too much and he would take his first steps inside. Discovering very quickly how easy it could be to become lost, he our hased hundreds of feet of rope and began going deeper and deeper inside. When he first began seeing the pale and malnourished monstrosities inside, he never could of imagined they would be the things to save him. With his best friend Sam pestering him, he knew he would eventually open up to him about the nightmares and it would do nothing but bring Sam to his death. When the two entered that door together, Sam would quickly be taken and murdered by the apartment and would spit Nate back into the real world all alone.
“I just want to get out of here. It’s so dark in here. Please, let me out.”
What the fuck is this? Where’s the fucking bottom?
“Don’t go in there,” she said as she shook her head. “It’s what it wants you to do.”
With Dolores, his elderly neighbor finally opening up to him with chilling details about the previous tenants, he knows how dangerous this situation is. Telling him of Vincent's daughter Sarah and Michelle, he never could dream of making it out alone. While Vincent and his wife Margery were bonding with him, he was subtly pulling away especially when he learned of the role they played in their own daughter's death. Coming home two hours after curfew and with her boyfriend Martin, her own father trapped her in the storage closet for days before Margery would open the door. Scared she'd try and leave, she shoved her and caused her to die when she collided with the kitchen counter. Terrified, she drug her body back to the closet and waited for her husband to make the heartbreaking discovery. Unfortunately, when he opened the door it was now that corridor into another hell. Deciding they will continue to bring in new tenants, they never once disclosed all the missing people were actually still trapped within the apartment. When Nathan entered for the last time, he barely made it out before the door would slam shut. Offered gas and a lighter, he began the steps to set the apartment aflame but it was never going to work. Looking through his own escape, he would wake back in the smoldered remains of his bed and find himself invisible to everybody else around him. Understanding he's now dead, he can only scream as a new tenant is prepping to arrive.
At around 3 am, something changed. The voice got much closer, as if it was right behind the wardrobe. It also got louder and more agitated. It uttered the same sentences, only this time the tone was higher-pitched and the way it spoke was faster. Nathan sensed anxiety in the voice. Or maybe it was anger. He couldn’t tell with certainty. By 3:15 am, the voice of his grandmother was so loud that it was practically shouting hoarsely. Nathan expected some of the neighbors to come complaining about the noise. He hoped that would happen, because sitting here and listening to it was hell. He could have just left, but something kept him there. He couldn’t tell what it was, but he was sure that it was the same thing that constantly tempted him to go inside the corridor. 3:19 am. The door started creaking, indicating that it was finally closing. “WHY WON’T YOU COME?!” the guttural, deep voice no longer belonging to his grandmother, but rather something more malevolent shouted with utter finality, making Nathan jump back and knock a plate on the floor, shattering it in pieces. Nearly immediately he was struck by the updated and lavish furnishings, but couldn’t quite get past the locked storage door that was impossible to open. Trying both himself and with the help of a professional locksmith, neither could figure out why this door refused to budge or even be scratched.
Believing he truly struck the gold mine of apartments, Nathan wasted no time signing his name to a luxury apartment costing only hundreds of dollars a month. With his luck seeming to be on the rise, he shoved a middle finger to his current landlord and his stingy and awful ways and moved into apartment 304. Almost from the moment he stepped foot into those cursed walls he felt something was off. As the days began bleeding together, he began pulling deeper into himself and isolating as the storage door now began opening at exactly 2:19am and closing promptly at 3:19am. At first, he could only stare into the decrepit corridor that mimicked his complex but soon the pull would become too much and he would take his first steps inside. Discovering very quickly how easy it could be to become lost, he our hased hundreds of feet of rope and began going deeper and deeper inside. When he first began seeing the pale and malnourished monstrosities inside, he never could of imagined they would be the things to save him. With his best friend Sam pestering him, he knew he would eventually open up to him about the nightmares and it would do nothing but bring Sam to his death. When the two entered that door together, Sam would quickly be taken and murdered by the apartment and would spit Nate back into the real world all alone.
“I just want to get out of here. It’s so dark in here. Please, let me out.”
What the fuck is this? Where’s the fucking bottom?
“Don’t go in there,” she said as she shook her head. “It’s what it wants you to do.”
With Dolores, his elderly neighbor finally opening up to him with chilling details about the previous tenants, he knows how dangerous this situation is. Telling him of Vincent's daughter Sarah and Michelle, he never could dream of making it out alone. While Vincent and his wife Margery were bonding with him, he was subtly pulling away especially when he learned of the role they played in their own daughter's death. Coming home two hours after curfew and with her boyfriend Martin, her own father trapped her in the storage closet for days before Margery would open the door. Scared she'd try and leave, she shoved her and caused her to die when she collided with the kitchen counter. Terrified, she drug her body back to the closet and waited for her husband to make the heartbreaking discovery. Unfortunately, when he opened the door it was now that corridor into another hell. Deciding they will continue to bring in new tenants, they never once disclosed all the missing people were actually still trapped within the apartment. When Nathan entered for the last time, he barely made it out before the door would slam shut. Offered gas and a lighter, he began the steps to set the apartment aflame but it was never going to work. Looking through his own escape, he would wake back in the smoldered remains of his bed and find himself invisible to everybody else around him. Understanding he's now dead, he can only scream as a new tenant is prepping to arrive.
At around 3 am, something changed. The voice got much closer, as if it was right behind the wardrobe. It also got louder and more agitated. It uttered the same sentences, only this time the tone was higher-pitched and the way it spoke was faster. Nathan sensed anxiety in the voice. Or maybe it was anger. He couldn’t tell with certainty. By 3:15 am, the voice of his grandmother was so loud that it was practically shouting hoarsely. Nathan expected some of the neighbors to come complaining about the noise. He hoped that would happen, because sitting here and listening to it was hell. He could have just left, but something kept him there. He couldn’t tell what it was, but he was sure that it was the same thing that constantly tempted him to go inside the corridor. 3:19 am. The door started creaking, indicating that it was finally closing. “WHY WON’T YOU COME?!” the guttural, deep voice no longer belonging to his grandmother, but rather something more malevolent shouted with utter finality, making Nathan jump back and knock a plate on the floor, shattering it in pieces. Nearly immediately he was struck by the updated and lavish furnishings, but couldn’t quite get past the locked storage door that was impossible to open. Trying both himself and with the help of a professional locksmith, neither could figure out why this door refused to budge or even be scratched.
August 20, 2023
This story was a trip! This was probably the creepiest story I've read by this author yet. You really get drawn into the mystery and suspense, so much so that anytime one of my cats moved while I was reading, I would jump slightly at the noise. Finished reading the book at 3 am because I couldn't put it down! I only gave 4 stars because, unfortunately, the book needs a good editor. There are missing quotation marks, periods where there should be commas, extra words in sentences, wrong words used, etc. I did have to reread a few things simply because I wasn't sure who was talking or what word the author was trying to use. The story itself is creepy and excellent and engaging. Even with the editing issues, I would still recommend this story! Just start reading with the knowledge that you will come across several grammatical errors. Even with the errors, the story is followable and creepy! Hopefully the author can get a good editor to revisit this book in the future. I would hate for such a talented story-teller to lose readers for easily fixed grammatical issues.
January 26, 2023
I have mixed feelings about this book. As a whole, it's decent enough, but there are certain things the author did throughout that pulled me out from time to time. To be more specific, the extensive overuse of the words "grin/grinning/grinned" and "feverish/feverishly." They were used very heavily in the beginning and end. And on that note, the beginning and end feel as though they were written by someone else entirely. The writing style is very, very different in the middle. I actually have wondered if the beginning and end were written at the same time and the middle written later because the author seemed to find a stride in the middle segments, but reverted to their pitfalls for the end segment that was so prevalent in the beginning.
December 10, 2022
Disjointed, poorly written
At 15% into the book I was bored but stuck it out to 33%. The author uses British and American terms interchangeably. Sentences have extra or missing words. Too many superfluous interjections and indirect references to things not previously mentioned. Because of sentence structure it is sometimes difficult to follow the story line. Entire paragraphs could be removed without affecting the plot. Many times I got the feeling that the author just threw something in as he thought of it even if it had no previous point of reference or relevance. Timeline continuity is not observed. The editors really did a disservice to the author.
At 15% into the book I was bored but stuck it out to 33%. The author uses British and American terms interchangeably. Sentences have extra or missing words. Too many superfluous interjections and indirect references to things not previously mentioned. Because of sentence structure it is sometimes difficult to follow the story line. Entire paragraphs could be removed without affecting the plot. Many times I got the feeling that the author just threw something in as he thought of it even if it had no previous point of reference or relevance. Timeline continuity is not observed. The editors really did a disservice to the author.
August 6, 2025
Boris Bacic’s books are always such a damn good time. I think this one was my favorite one out of the three haunted places books, though parts of it did remind me a lot of Apartment 401.
I feel like the main character was just plain stubborn or even kind of dumb at times. I’d be making videos of this just to have evidence. But that’s what keeps the horror going i guess. Or perhaps there is this pull from the door that he’s unable to get out of?
One more thing I’ve noticed from reading 10+ Boris books is that happy endings are usually not guaranteed and I dig that!
I feel like the main character was just plain stubborn or even kind of dumb at times. I’d be making videos of this just to have evidence. But that’s what keeps the horror going i guess. Or perhaps there is this pull from the door that he’s unable to get out of?
One more thing I’ve noticed from reading 10+ Boris books is that happy endings are usually not guaranteed and I dig that!
January 31, 2022
I gave up on page 28. Why? Because a child in Grade 6 would know how to write dialogue, you know, like writing the dialog inside quotation marks, using a comma, before the quotation mark, and writing the speaker's, he in this case, name,for example:
"Go to the store," Tony said.
This author knows nothing about sentence structure and proper grammar.
Anyone who thought it was a good book, didn't you notice? The author is not really an author. An editor and proofreader are in order.
"Go to the store," Tony said.
This author knows nothing about sentence structure and proper grammar.
Anyone who thought it was a good book, didn't you notice? The author is not really an author. An editor and proofreader are in order.
December 3, 2022
I dig Bacic's writing and The Door is no different. A fun, House of Leaves type adventure merged with some psychological thriller elements.
While I liked the concept and direction, however, I found the book about 50 pages too long and the prose in dire need of editing this go-round. The epilogue was also super unnecessary and didn't make a whole lot of sense compared to everything that preceded it.
While I liked the concept and direction, however, I found the book about 50 pages too long and the prose in dire need of editing this go-round. The epilogue was also super unnecessary and didn't make a whole lot of sense compared to everything that preceded it.
July 3, 2023
Scary, disorienting, frustrating, and satisfying. The frustrating element was the main protagonist's inability to stay away from the door, but then the book wouldn't have existed if he did, so I should probably not complain about that. His frequent blackouts and the different versions of the apartment building behind the door kept us disoriented and unnerved. The ending was not my favourite; another one of those desperate attempts by an author to avoid a happy ending. 3.5 stars.
June 16, 2021
This is the second book I’ve read of his and I plan on reading all of them. The author has a knack for writing stories you can’t put down. My only minor complaint is there were a few spelling errors.
March 1, 2023
Again Boris Bacic delivers, a tale of scares, of edge of the seat thrills, and great character development. For short books read over a couple of nights, I go through a couple of these a week... And keep coming back for more.
November 4, 2024
Truly scary
Boris Bacic knows how to write a scary story. Tension built nicely, and this was well paced.
I disagree with the author's punctuation, overuse of adverbs and mixed-up tenses, but they didn't ruin a great horror, which was perfect for Halloween.
Boris Bacic knows how to write a scary story. Tension built nicely, and this was well paced.
I disagree with the author's punctuation, overuse of adverbs and mixed-up tenses, but they didn't ruin a great horror, which was perfect for Halloween.
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