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* The book ''Tom's Midnight Garden'' has Tom able to access the titular garden {{spoiler|via [[Time Travel]]}} when the clock in his aunt's house strikes 13 at midnight.
* [[Philip Jose Farmer]]'s ''Dayworld'' books have a slightly more science-fictional version of this. To combat overpopulation, just about everyone is in stasis six days out of seven, and there's a half-hour gap between the time one day's population goes into stasis and the time the next day's population comes out.
* The famous science fiction story ''Zeepsday'' by [[Gordon R. Dickson]] is about an alien race that shows humanity that there is an ''eighth day'' in the week.
* Clive Barker's ''[[
* The Eleven-Day Empire, from the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], was created from the 'missing' days between [[wikipedia:Calendar (New Style) Act 1750|3 and 13 September 1752]].
* The entire plot of [[Stephen King]]'s short story ''[[The Langoliers]]'' from [[Four Past Midnight]]. Several people wake up on an airplane mid-flight to find themselves all alone in the world and {{spoiler|trapped in a sort of garbage space between days, where the entire world is erased and created anew.}}
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