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Lovecraft Imagined the BACKROOMS Before They Existed

21K views · Aug 30, 2026 · Entertainment

Comments · 86

  • @TF2CrunchyFrog · 3 weeks ago · pinned

    What, no mention of the giant, empty, underground castle in Lovecraft&apos;s short story <i>The Outsider?</i>

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  • @09philipr · 4 weeks ago

    Lovecraft also imagined Limp Bizkit:<br>&quot;The rapping was now repeated with greater insistance, and this time it bore a hint of metal...&quot;

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  • @RichardChave-xl9yw · 1 month ago (edited)

    The only real pulp Sci fi story HPL ever wrote was about a prospector dying of starvation yards from the entrance to an invisible maze on Venus. No mythos, no monsters, just invisble walls that &nbsp;change orientation &nbsp;randomly. If that isn&apos;t a Backrooms image I don&apos;t know what is.

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  • @boredom2go · 4 weeks ago

    The Backrooms reminds me of the Star Trek: TNG episode about the casino. A higher intelligence builds an environment for a human without fully understanding humanity.

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  • @percytoplis2335 · 3 weeks ago

    &quot;The Boys in the Back Room&quot; is a song written by Frank Loesser, set to music by Frederick Hollaender and performed by Marlene Dietrich in the film Destry Rides Again (1939). It is often referred to as &quot;See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have&quot;.

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  • @mikhailiagacesa3406 · 3 weeks ago

    The Minotaur and the labyrinth. The ancient Greeks had the Backrooms. Nothing is new.

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  • @jasoncarter2379 · 3 weeks ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ns0Rqbohlc&amp;t=1500">25:00</a> explains what happened during the last episode of Twin Peaks: The Return

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  • @Tier1GearEDCReviews · 4 weeks ago

    I worked as an onsite mover for Northrop Grumman and I’ve 100% been in THE Backrooms before. We cleaned out this 15 story building from the 50’s that was getting demolished, but once it was nearly empty it looked EXACTLY as it did in the movie. No windows, each floor had a different layout… It was oddly creepy.

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  • @msursa · 3 weeks ago

    Backrooms are liminal for humans. Lovecraft&apos;s spaces weren&apos;t. They were aligned to alien geometries.

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  • @Alf_Male · 3 weeks ago (edited)

    I think Kafka suggested distortions of reality in his books—even though there was always room to think the characters were simply mad—and few people pondered this much beyond viewing those distortions as metaphors for social ills.

  • @lythnookwemin · 4 weeks ago

    The hedge was before Lovecraft, and the backrooms. the other side, land of the dead or even of the others. Like the hillfolk, or those across the water. Liminal, eldritch, elftouched, or just slipping into the underworld are far before even lovecraft. I like the Backrooms, it fits with other hedged realms. Humans have had other realms, liminal spaces, afterlives, for as long as we have been human, even slightly before. &nbsp;So some faiths built around them, but folk used to seek out the clipping locations, just don&apos;t eat the pomegranate seed, or the peach cobbler. &nbsp;And especially not the food from the vending machine. How many times has a child got lost in their own home? The backrooms are just the kaleidoscope of the mundane hallways and even homes. Like some telling&apos;s of the fairfolks home, it builds around what the human finds familiar. SCP fits the same old telling.

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  • @ShebaFr · 3 weeks ago

    AI was perfect to convey how uncanny those dimensions are.

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