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My name is Christian. I'm 27 a year old journalist and author with 3 self published books, all of which are novel length horror stories. I never planned to be a horror writer when I got my first freelance gig back in 2016, but alas, the world is spooky and mysterious.
The first two books are super heady and tailored more towards a psychedelic loving audience, but the third book is why I'm posting here today. It's based around the backrooms and the horror of the infinite in-between.. The phenomenon of this place started during the COVID pandemic with all the abandoned places and eventually turned into an entire universe.
Well, I fell in love with that universe, so much so that I wrote an entire book about it, with all sorts of super atmospheric levels. An abandoned day care, a dead mall, endless suburbia, pool rooms, vacant offices, just to name a few. Those kind are the kinds of places the book is set in
The whole Backrooms concept really pioneered a new genre of what I might call "liminal horror;" books that put the characters in uncanny spaces. There are certainly books that touch on the liminality, but I think the concept as a full theme is relatively new on the writing scene.
So, I'd like to offer my mystery-horror-liminal-novel out to anybody who wants to start to having nightmares about being lost in infinite dark basements, maintenance tunnels, abandoned offices, and endless urban desolation. I couldn't stop having these dreams while I was writing this book.