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Videogames Make Better Horror Than Hollywood:

The fact is, I like to be scared out of my wits. I'm one of those wimps who is easily spooked yet generally enjoys the sensation. So ever since I was a kid, I've loved good horror movies -- I'd turn out the lights freak myself out with classics like Halloween, Friday the 13th or The Exorcist.

Yet here's the thing: For several years now, I've found that my favorite horror experiences aren't coming from movies any more. They're coming from games. [full (short) article at Wired]

interstice - Wiktionary:

interstice (plural interstices)
1. (noun form very rare): a small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, as between cords in a rope or components of a multiconductor electrical cable or between atoms in a crystal. "The part that is not there."
Quotation: (1999) "That he ran the risk of blowing out the stained-glass windows was of no consequence since no one liked them anyway, and the paper mill fumes were gnawing at the interstitial lead." - Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

Interstitial art - Wikipedia:

Interstitial art is a term first coined in the 1990s, and increasingly popularized in the early 2000s, that refers to any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or media, thus making the work difficult to easily categorize or describe within a single artistic discipline.

Jeremiah Tolbert - But Wouldn't It Be Cool?: Story Thought of the Day:

To motivate a character from happiness, take away something that makes them happy, and they will go after it. Make it harder and harder to get. In the end, give them what they really want, not what they think they wanted. But only if they gave up something else in return. No victory without sacrifice. That is the holy math of story. No success without change.