<p>A group of Washington D.C. socialites try to recreate a Victorian mummy unwrapping party, but instead of unveiling ancient jewels, this mummy reveals hidden secrets.</p>

11. Little Miss Strange

With wildly imagined characters and jarringly unexpected circumstances, these stories exist in a kind of literary twilight zone. Yet they go beyond merely the creepy and strange, the odd and sometimes absurd, at times exhibiting a keen authorial understanding of human nature and a Kakfaesque pathos for the human condition.