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[[The Hidden Hour]] is a period of time within the average day that is [[Invisible to Normals]]; most people don't experience it, nor are they aware it even exists at all. Only a few people, often those with some kind of special power, know about this extra hour; and only they are able to act during it. To these people, when '''The Hidden Hour''' occurs, normal clocks [[Time Stands Still|stop ticking]], [[Muggles]] freeze in place (or vanish entirely), and strange things start to happen.
'''The Hidden Hour''' frequently occurs [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]], due to the association between midnight and magic. However, this is not about magic simply being at its strongest around midnight, nor is it about planets whose day-night cycles are naturally longer than 24 Earth hours.
In spite of the name, '''The Hidden Hour''' is not
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* There's a short manga called ''Crossing 25'', in which the 25th hour is inhabited only by a handful of people who fight over whether tomorrow will arrive or not. It's... interestingly strange.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Midnighters|The ''Midnighters'' Trilogy]] has the Blue Time, between midnight and 12:01, though in the last book it starts appearing during the day as well. Also involves monsters which attack the defenseless ordinary people (or would were it not for the efforts of a bunch of teenagers who fight them with superpowers and the number 13).
* 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 ''[[Abarat]] Trilogy'' deals with a magical archipelago where each hour of the day is represented by an island. There is a 25th island, that remains highly mysterious even after it's visited.
* The Eleven-Day Empire, from the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], was created from the
* The entire plot of [[Stephen King]]'s short story
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''The New [[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "A Matter of Minutes", a couple are caught in a space with no time where the future is being constructed for each minute.
** This is based on the short story "Yesterday was Monday" by Theodore Sturgeon.
** The same series also has "Paladin of the Lost Hour", where there's a secret hour contained in a
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' had the main characters effectively experience one of these. They were on a planet where people were linked into a computer system. Every so often, the computer would "pause" everyone. During this time, the team walked around while the population was frozen.
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Tabletop RPG]]s ==
* ''[[Don't Rest Your Head]]'' has a hidden hour that occurs twice a day, once at noon and once at midnight.
** However, this extra hour
== [[Video Games]] ==
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