I have never spoken to anyone else about it, so this is personal conjecture, but I believe that liminal horror is something experienced in real life by fellow disabled people.

And I believe that the idea of liminal horror could be an excellent path for criticizing or satirizing hostile design within those spaces, e.g. anti-homeless spikes, lack of seating, absurd stairs, lack of public transit. I think that this is one of the main things that makes these spaces so “scary” for even able bodied people who have the shared experience of not enjoying walking a mile for no damn reason. Since the core of liminal horror is a transitional space that you are not intended to dwell within. (Probably not a coincidence that “liminality” is so popular with newer generations seeing as there are increasingly no safe public spaces for minors.)

But getting stuck on aesthetics can be an end to actual discussion, and even risks romanticizing it unthinkingly, once we get into viewing it as nostalgic/comforting and not hostile.

This is not a criticism, just some stuff to think about that I think could add a third dimension to the way we look at it.