Hey everyone, super excited to share the cover art I just got back for the first book in the Backrooms series I've been posting about. You can see Dan and Croc fighting the Lobby Stairwell Guardian, and it couldn't be more glorious. I love the fac...
2023-07-25 23:46:37 +0000 UTC View PostNineteen – Froyo for Everyone!
Half an hour later Croc and I were sitting on a bench in front of a Froyo place called Yogurt Oasis. We’d come here because Yogurt Oasis happened to be the closest store with a wor...
2023-07-24 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostEighteen – Triple M
It was the whisper of fabric on fabric, this time accompanied by a blur of motion off to my left. I wheeled, catching the fluttering edge of a blue sheet, just before it disappeared behind one of the ra...
2023-07-21 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostSeventeen – Gamblers Paradise
Like everything else on level three, thematically the Arcade looked like it had been ripped straight out of an episode of Stranger Things. Neon blazed, painting the walls in a tapestry of eye-...
2023-07-20 19:57:28 +0000 UTC View PostSixteen – Extreme Gains
The Compass of the Catacomber turned out to be exactly as awesome as I’d anticipated. Hell, it was probably even better than I’d thought on first inspection. The map was incredibly detailed, and...
2023-07-20 19:51:03 +0000 UTC View PostFifteen – Minor Detour
If MediocreMart wasn’t the Backrooms version of Walgreens, I’d eat a flipflop. Sure, the description didn’t make it sound great, but under the right management it could be a goldmine. I accepte...
2023-07-20 19:48:02 +0000 UTC View PostFourteen – The Job Board
“You know what the best store is?” I said, turning away from the Progenitor Monolith and toward the rubbery, blue dog waiting patiently behind me.
“Wait, give me a minute, I know this o...
2023-07-20 19:43:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone. Hope y'all are enjoying Backrooms so far. I'm having a blast writing it and I'm getting ready to enter the third act, which means book 1 isn't too far from being complete.
But! you'll notice that I just took down a bunch of cha...
2023-07-20 19:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostThirteen – Compass of the Catacomber
I looked over my newly upgraded stats once more before closing out my SBR tab.
Dan Woodridge
Specimen Biotag ID #03A-01-B00R7T569C!
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2023-07-03 19:46:42 +0000 UTC View PostTwelve – The Backrooms VIRUS
I heard the sharp whirl of a motor start up as digital text flickered to life on a small screen. Welcome to the Backrooms! To access your Personal VIRUS Account, please place your bare ...
2023-06-30 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostEleven – Frank’s Blacklight Emporium
Frank’s Blacklight Emporium turned out to be a headshop.
Like everything else inside the Backrooms, however, Frank’s was a TV stereotype cranked to eleven, hit with a potent...
2023-06-28 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTen – Relics Galore
We headed away from the courtyard with the acidic water feature and the presumably carnivorous plants and to another intersection dotted with abandoned kiosks, which sold everything from candy and cheap...
2023-06-26 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNine – Croc Dog
In a matter of seconds, the Croc dog was gone, and a blob of bright blue goop appeared in its place. The creature had a small army of writhing tentacles, several different mouth orifices—all filled with f...
2023-06-23 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostEight – To Greener Pastures
The stairwell was nothing special and blessedly devoid of monsters or unnamed horrors waiting to devour me the moment I let my guard down. It was just plain concrete, a simple metal handrail, an...
2023-06-21 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSeven – Bathroom Brawler
The force of the blow forced the creature backward, its many arms pinwheeling to maintain its precarious balance. Still gripping the creature’s tongue, I pulled my fist back and smashed the tool ...
2023-06-19 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSix – Janitorial Handyman
I hit the wall with a whoomph and a host of white stars danced and cartwheeled across my vision. I blinked several times in utter disbelief, not trusting my eyes because what I was seeing...
2023-06-16 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFive – Endless Corridors
I spent the next several hours wandering through a seemingly endless series of twisting, turning, and interconnected corridors that didn’t go anywhere or have a discernable purpose.
It was ...
2023-06-14 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFour – Achievement Unlocked!
I don’t know how long I was out for—could’ve been two-minutes or ten hours. I didn’t have a watch on, and there were no windows or other organic sources of light, so gauging the time wa...
2023-06-12 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThree – Clash of Legends
The Monarch’s khopesh met the gunslinger’s foam anime sword in a clap of thunder and a clang that sounded like metal. Golden sparks and sizzling arcs of red electricity spit intoThe Monarch’s...
2023-06-09 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTwo – That’s so 90s!
There was a flash of metal, then something out of sight slammed into the writhing crimson ball of nightmare fuel, batting it across the room like a baseline drive. The monster—and that was really t...
2023-06-07 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNoclip In, No Way Out…
All Dan wants is to find a way home. He’d settle for a beer, a bite to eat, and a place to sleep off his hangover.
But, in an endless, ever-changing dungeon cobbled together from twisted carn...
2023-06-05 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Travelers! James here. Wanted to thank you all so much for reading my books and supporting my work. As a small thank you, here is an Advance Reader Copy for Vigil's Wrath, book 4 in the series! Y'all get it a whole month before everyone else. ...
2023-06-02 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI've got new materials in-bound! Hey Travelers, James Hunter here. I know there's been a content dry spell on my Patreon account for the past few months, but I'm glad to say that I've got some awesome stuff rolling through the pipeline.
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It's finally here! Release day! Super excited to say that Vigil Bound 3, Vigil's Balance, is live on Amazon! The Audiobook--narrated by the awesomely talented Luke Daniels--is o...
2023-04-27 12:56:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, Jeanette (James' wife) here. I just wanted to hop on and thank you all for continuing to support James even though he hasn't posted in awhile. The last few months have been pretty challenging for him. Family challenges as well as som...
2023-03-31 13:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe party to celebrate the end of the Interschool Tournament of Collegial Dungeon Excellence was truly amazing. There were fireworks, a parade where the Terrible Twelfth and Chadrigoth got to practice their princess waves on various floats. The pa...
2023-01-20 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSaturday morning, Logan and his friends were all in the ring, sitting in a variety of plush, comfy chairs when the professors marched into the arena.
The rector prime, Yullis Rockheart, led the way down the aisle with nearly a dozen other pr...
2023-01-18 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe first part of Tet’s big surprise wasn’t that shocking?
No one had actually expected them to survive, much less beat Lou Shador and the entire Glow Brigade on the first day of the final round. It was unheard of. Usually, it took weeks...
2023-01-16 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostShador stood in the ring as his rabid fanlings chased after the cores floating over the fleeing card table.
Logan lay at the wrestler’s feet while the odiferous ropes slowly squeezed him to death.
He’d become a connoisseur of nasty...
2023-01-13 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostPeppered throughout the upper rows of the coliseum were Marko’s faceless mannequins, all eerily motionless and decked out in jeans, muscle shirts, bandanas, and a shocking array of flannel. They were the perfect wrestling audience, waiting to wi...
2023-01-11 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post