Corridors of Dread

You are walking down a perfectly ordinary hotel hallway in a video game. There are no monsters, no sudden loud noises, no blood on the walls. Yet, every step you take fills you with a creeping, suffocating sense of panic. This is the power of the "e;liminal space"e;-the art of designing environments that feel deeply familiar, yet inherently wrong. Why do empty parking garages, endless stairwells...