性慾诈妻师

　　911接線員艾莉絲是個生活孤單的年輕女性；某天，她居然收到一份詭異的快遞：一副棺材！驚嚇之餘、不得已只能將棺材暫放客廳的艾莉絲，為了找出寄送者的身分，展開一場怪誕旅程。送棺材給她的，究竟是鬼屋主人、殯葬業者，還是與她分分合合的前男友賽斯？這一切背後又有什麼離奇動機呢？

越战老兵乔纳森·泰勒正在与内疚和妄想作斗争，他计划自杀，但一次偶然的遭遇打乱了他与现实作斗争的决定，让他的命运变得不确定。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　本作は田舎に住む祖父母に会いに行く看護学生の孫を主人公にした物語。孫は家族水入らずで幸せな時間を過ごすが、祖父母の家にいる「何か」に違和感を覚え、やがて人間の存在自体を揺るがすような根源的な恐怖に直面する。