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** ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''

* ''Literature/{{Momo}}'': Never Street is a place beyond the edge of the time. The streets leading to it are devoid of all life, and the atmosphere is still and quiet, flooded by a fading light which seems simultaneously to come from nowhere and everywhere. As walking through the place, Momo can see strange monuments and weird houses which haven't been built for people at all, and realizes what the slower she walks, the quicker she advances...until she steps on the proper Never Street and she cannot move at all until she walks backwards because Time itself flows backwards through that place.

** ''Literature/FactionParadox'':

** The Nevernever. In size, it is to Australia what Earth is to the Rhode island[[note]]Roughly speaking surface area of the Earth is 162,443 times the area of Rhode Island. So with Australia having a rough area of 7,692,024 square kilometers, then the area of Nevernever is close to 1,249,517,855,327 square kilometers. For reference, that is about 20 times greater than the surface area of the planet Jupiter[[/note]], and the laws of physics just don't work the way they do in our world. In fact they almost ''never'' do. What goes beyond that is the dimensions between entrances isn't 1 to 1. There is a portal in Chicago that leads to a trail. Following the trail, one can get a person to Edinburgh, Scotland in a 30 minute walk. Even just moving a few feet in one direction can change where you enter into. Open a portal in a cemetery or shady area and expect a place with negative attributes, but move away from that to the nice home close by and you could find a veritable paradise. And that said, just because the place looks like a nice visit, LightIsNotGood may apply. The region Harry Dresden's apartment connects to is a beautiful garden [[spoiler:with a giant killer centipede that if cut in half, now one has ''two'' centipede monsters to fight.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''' ''The Andalite Chronicles'', Elfangor, Loren, and Visser Three get hold of the Time Matrix, a time machine, at the same time and each simultaneously tries to use it to take them back to their home planets. The result is a horrifying mishmash of their memories of all three. At the edge of that world, there's nothing but zero space, and Loren's arm gets bent spacially back into her face when she tries to reach out there. At the center is the Time Matix itself, which is the key to getting out of there, but time speeds up for all matter that comes close, causing Elfangor and Loren to age five Earth years before they reach it, and are unable to change back after they escape.

* The Kavach Building in ''[[Literature/FourteenPeterClines 14]]'' by Peter Clines SEEMS innocuous enough. It's not. [[spoiler: It has a door into SPACE for starters.]]
* Hinted at in ''Literature/TwentySixSixtySix'' by Creator/RobertoBolano. All of the characters notice that something's... off about Santa Teresa, a fictionalized version of Ciudad Juarez, where some 3000 women have disappeared or been murdered since the 1990s. And then there's the mysterious nature of the book's title, which is hinted at in other Bolaño works as well. As one reviewer put it:
-->There is something secret, horrible, and cosmic afoot, centered around Santa Teresa (and possibly culminating in the mystical year of the book's title, a date that is referred to in passing in ''Amulet'' as well). We can at most glimpse it, in those uncanny moments when the world seems wrong.[[http://blog.semcoop.com/2008/11/10/2666/]]

*** The Eleven-Day Empire, a [[MundaneMadeAwesome tract of space/time, shaped like XVIII century London]], ritualistically separated from reality by eleven days that never existed. Specifically, when the 18th century British Empire shifted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, the date changed from the 2nd to the 14th of September. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Figuring that nobody was using them, the Faction took those eleven days]], cut them off from the rest of causality, and turned them into a twisted shadow version of Victorian London under a [[RedSkyTakeWarning perpetually burning sky]]. It's a weird place. (In its introduction, it's explained that if you were to [[LampshadeHanging point out]] that the above [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum doesn't really make sense]], because a shift in the calendar doesn't "create" unused days, Faction Paradox would say that [[TimeyWimeyBall that's rather the point]].)

* ''Literature/ThirdTimeLuckyAndOtherStoresOfTheMostPowerfulWizardInTheWorld'': Magdelene's house shifts its structure around frequently, which confuses and scares Joah as a result.

** Bizarrely, the one constant about this place is that it's apparently home to imaginary/fictional things, including Bebe's brother (who she made up as a scapegoat for her pranks), Mark Miller (a name accidentally assigned to Benjamin Nushmutt due to some misfiled paperwork), and even the severed ear from a classmate's blatantly made-up story. Somehow, a real student and a real cow both somehow get trapped there, though the former escapes eventually. Weirdly, only the ([[MysteriousStranger equally enigmatic]]) [[MenInBlack three men]] can see or access this place and its denizens at will, and apparently it serves ''some'' vital function at the school. Whether it's an extremely localized "Imagination Land" PocketDimension or something else entirely is never elaborated upon.

* In Creator/DeanKoontz's ''Seize the Night'', military scientists have found a way into some kine of parallel universe of red skies and black, fungus-like trees. The protagonists initially believed the scientists had been building a time machine to the future. Actually, [[spoiler: they may have opened a doorway to Hell - so to speak. One of the characters later postulates that our ideas of Heaven and Hell may have come from genuine mystics who were able to glimpse alternate dimensions, some incredibly alien to our own]].
-->"That's not the future. That's... ''sideways''."

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': The Shadowlands appear as a barren wasteland, with a dimly lit sky, filled with {{living shadows}} as its denizens. It is also DreamLand, with both time and space distorted for this reason. Even so, it's also capable of containing a physical object if magically placed there.

* [[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas-Lag]] is a strange place to begin with, featuring dozens of sentient races, a city built in the corpse of a dead giant, bears built from flocks of birds and more, but any place that's been touched by the Torque is considered an EldritchLocation in-universe. Torque is a special kind of magic that, as its name suggests, twists things. The primary villains of ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'' are from the Cacotopic Stain, Bas-Lag's premier Torque locality. There is mention of the city of Seuroch, which was hit with a FantasticNuke to ''cover up'' what the Torque bombs it was initially hit with did. The Stain itself is probed in ''Literature/IronCouncil'', and it isn't pretty.

%%* The world described in the [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible]] ''Literature/CodexSeraphinianus''.

** The room in ''Literature/FourteenOhEight''. Both the short story and the movie are insistent that there's no ghosts.