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* Trope Namer is ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]''. It's home to the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of boredom, and you get there by not thinking.
* In the [[Stephen King]] novella ''[[The Langoliers]]'', the characters are stuck in between seconds. The resulting dead world acts in this manner, but it is fated to be eaten by [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]].
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* The [[Crapsack World]] of ''[[The Road]]'' might qualify.
* The Muddletop Moors in Alan Dean Foster's ''[[Spellsinger]]'' novel ''The Day of the Dissonance''. It's overcast all the time, food is tasteless and anyone traveling through it gets so bored and depressed that they just lie down and die. It turns out that the depression is caused by the telepathic broadcasts of the intelligent giant fungi who live there. But of course, [[The Hero|Jon Tom]] provided some magical entertainment to the fungi and passed through the moors safely.
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