In spite of being the trope namer, the Backrooms are of course not the origin of the “person wanders… (opens in new tab)

In spite of being the trope namer, the Backrooms are of course not the origin of the “person wanders into a liminal space underlying normal reality which resembles an empty yet inescapable version of some mundane environment, and where there might or might not be a Creature What’s Gonna Getcha” genre of horror. This basic premise existed for decades before 4chan got its hands on it – though in the absence of a popular “standard formula”, many prior examples contain only some of its central fe...