In a different sort of novel, this act would dominate the proceedings, but immediately something even more unsettling happens.
When people are dealing with some of the most important choices in their lives, like how to raise their children, and something unsettling happens, "your brain will reach for explanations, for a sense of order".
But something else, something quietly unsettling, has happened: not a disruption of harmony but a disruption of pulse.
There we'd be, snuggled up on the couch with an obscure foreign film, watching unsettling things happening to people in Norwegian, when a missive would arrive: "Well?
Of course, the only way I could learn this was by becoming a director, and I was maybe 10 minutes into that first directorial meeting when I began to sense that something quite unsettling was happening, something new and a little bit alarming: people were writing down what I was saying.
Set in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, "The Exorcist" captivated readers with the increasingly strange and unsettling occurrences happening around the main character, Regan MacNeil, and her family.
"The Man Who Saved the World" is more successful, taking some time to tell the unsettling story of what happened on a Soviet submarine, one of four sent toward Cuba from the Arctic Circle as the crisis was developing.
I just wanted to tell a story about maternity and pregnancy, and I thought those things would seem a lot more strange and unsettling if it all happened to a boy.
One of the more unsettling things that has happened wasn't really from a suitor, but it's been people who I actually know.
According to reports from Annapurna basecamp, many of the nineteen climbers who summited on Tuesday did not return to their high camp until well after dark, and at least one Spanish climber lay stricken with cerebral edema and waiting for rescue from below - circumstances bearing an unsettling similarity to what happened on K2 in 2008.
