I finished reading Murakami's latest brick of a novel, 1Q84 not so long ago. It's a story about love, isolation and most importantly--portals into alternate realities, a topic that I've always been equally intriqued and creeped out by.
My favorite Twilight Zone episode is the one where a little girl accidently falls through an invisible portal in her bedroom wall and is lost in infinite space with only her cries echoing sporadically throughout the house like a ghost, driving the parents mad.
The main characters in 1Q84 realize they've somehow transitioned out of their own worlds into another when they notice that the sky now depicts two moons. The parallel universe (1Q84) isn't all that different from the real world--at first. I think the parallel world being 'off' in barely perceptible ways, make it more sinister because it's disorienting, like when you don't know whether you're in a dream or not.
One of my favorite elements in the book is actually a short story embedded within the novel. It's understatedly creepy, I couldn't shake the eeriness for weeks, I keep thinking about the town of cats.
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