Eve Elizabeth Taft

An empty set of hallways with a lone cardboard box in the center If you’re fascinated by the Backrooms but not quite ready to noclip out of our reality, director Kane Parsons delivers the next best thing: a film set in the eerie world spawned on 4chan in 2019. If the proverbial uncanny valley were a place, then this movie would have been filmed on location. Backrooms is genuinely unsettling and definitely worth a watch. For an overview of the Backrooms phenomenon, check out this deep dive....

Richard T. Wilson's latest entry into the Mad Shelley Universe is a YA novella where our heroine faces off against a demonic cult

Marcus Kliewer’s much-anticipated second novel, The Caretaker, dropped on April 21, 2026. Already, fans in the r/OldHouseArchive community are tearing it apart looking for Kliewer’s trademark puzzles and easter eggs. The book hasn’t disappointed – so let’s get into it. If you missed my first article previewing The Caretaker, here’s a quick summary: Macy Mullins, down on her luck and trying desperately to keep her head above water while taking care of her teenage sister, takes an improbable...