ITT: We describe fictional novels and try to guess which author we're thinking of

[Anonymous No.12934021]

>Our Souls in Autumn
The story of Quincy Van Brunt, a wealthy but idle playboy and his fruitless quest for meaning in decadence and love. Recently orphaned by circumstance and disillusioned by The Great War, Quincy drifts aimlessly from the cocktail parties of the nouveau riche to flop house dives without purpose or prospect, until her meets the vivacious and wanton Virginia Rose, a woman who cannot be tamed nor kept. From the bright lights of the French Riviera to the august palaces of New English aristocracy, Quincy and Virginia make their mark on the world in endless nights of hedonism and solipsism, eventually picking up Tom MacLean, penniless veteran turned philosopher, as their eager companion. Dry in wit and prescient in commentary, "Our Souls in Autumn" is an incisive and poignant exploration of the excesses of The Jazz Age, and The Lost Generation's desperate search for vindication.

>The Night Walkers
Struggling with alcoholism and troubled by the looming demise of his third marriage, renown horror author Will Chandler retreats to his childhood home in rural Maine to try to cure his writer's block. The Chandler estate is a shadowy and melancholy home, and Will finds himself haunted by memories of his fanatical mother's abuse and the return of Mr. Poe, the talking raven who was his only friend as a child. Whether delusion or apparition, this specter guides Will into the immense and foreboding dark woods surrounding him, where he will discover a strange and dangerous cult known as The Scarlet Breed. They open Will's eyes to a decadence more vivid than any of his nightmares, but the price they ask may be more than he's willing to pay…

>The Asiatic Officialdom
At a vast and mysterious agency that runs the world, its reach exceeded only by its own ineffectualness, unimportant clerk Johan K. finds the doldrums of his mundane occupation upset when the next document he has to process is the warrant for his own execution. Making his way through the maddeningly convoluted bureaucracy in a desperate and futile attempt to cancel his own demise, Johan K. engages in a series of bizarre exchanges with various employees and mid-level managers, ranging from the infantile to the officious, none of whom present answers or stop the buck. Eventually he wonders if one cog can stop the machine.

>The Blender Is Evil!
Mary-Jean Colton HATES moving- especially when it's to a one-horse town where she doesn't know anyone. Boredom turns to dread when Mary-Jean finds a bizarre old blender in the kitchen cupboard. A blender prone to turning on by itself in the middle of the night and bizarre chunks of "food" (?) nobody remembers blending keep on showing up inside. Noone believe hers, but Mary-Jean has an unsettling feeling that this blender has something more than smoothies in mind…

[Anonymous No.12934205]

>>12934021
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen King
Franz Kafka
Idk Philip K. Dick maybe?

[Anonymous No.12934979]

>>12934205

R.L. Stine, but you got the rest right.