#everyone rbing this should read horrorstor by grady hendrix
considering how obvious it is conceptually, im surprised there isn’t more “liminal space” horror media that has like. anything to say about the sort of rampant capitalist expansion + subsequent economic crash that leads to seemingly endless, samey public spaces like malls, resorts, and parking lots being abandoned and empty. The feeling of being the only living thing within a structure that seems, on the surface, built for people, but in reality expands into infinity in an inescapably banal maze of careless, empty rooms. There’s no need for a monster, the environment itself both desperately needs you and wants you to die
