The Backrooms: Threshold Path

Backrooms: Threshold Journey

When an ordinary office worker, Lin Mo, is plunged into an endless yellow maze by a malfunctioning elevator late at night, he finds himself in Backrooms Level 0. The isolation effect is in force: all there is is a monotonous hum, damp carpet, and six billion square meters of non-Euclidean space. No one else is there.

From the pipe-filled hell of Level 1 to the eternal darkness of Level 6, he faces the Wretches and Skin-Stealers.

He ventures deep into the eerie C Cluster, witnesses an indescribable being in the throne room of Level C-8, and battles a nebula consciousness that devours memories in the void of Level C-751.

Carrying fragments of an anomalous object from the W Cluster, he is forcibly hurled into the mechanical inferno of Level F-167 in the F Cluster.

Between the Lovecraftian city of R’lyeh on Level α and the bas-reliefs of mythological beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas on Level 4096, he glimpses the terrifying interweaving of myth and reality.

Lin Mo gradually uncovers the Backrooms’ cruelest rule: knowledge is poison. The more deeply you understand a level, the more likely you are to attract entities that will hunt you down. When he finally learns the truth behind his fall into the Backrooms, the “ordinary” world that pushed him into the abyss seems to be not quite what it appears…

This novel differs somewhat from the original Backrooms.