Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer about a boy whose father died in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. After finding in a vase belonging to his father a key with the name "Black" written on it, nine-year-old Oskar goes on a quest to find the key's owner, meeting people in New York City with the last name of "Black." In the end, Oskar returns to the key to someone unrelated to his father. The novel deals with themes of trauma, loss and redemption.
The Red Room is the story of an unnamed narrator exploring the title location, a red room in Castle Lorraine in the English countryside of the late 1800s. The room is known far and wide as a haunted locale, and the narrator is determined to pass the night there. The story is concerned with his struggle to keep the room lit as, one by one, his candles wink out for no apparent reason. Eventually he is knocked unconscious. The next morning he states the room is haunted by Fear itself.