最后一班地铁

　　在一个异常炎热的日子里，三个不同的家庭发现了一个奇怪的秘密——他们刚刚死去的亲人又回来了。他们不知道该怎么办——这些不是毫无意识的僵尸，而是完全不同的东西。但究竟是什么呢？

70岁的寡妇托娃·沙利文在索维尔湾水族馆做夜班清洁工，三十年前儿子的失踪一直是她心中的痛。她与馆里聪明的太平洋巨型章鱼马塞勒斯建立起奇妙的羁绊，马塞勒斯总能在她难过时给予无声的陪伴。与此同时，迷茫的青年卡梅隆·卡斯莫正在寻找自己的生父，他的人生也因这场寻找而逐渐清晰。两条看似无关的故事线，因马塞勒斯的意外发现慢慢交织。

　　周公是个70多岁的富翁，因为妻子不能生育，想娶个年轻的姑娘生个儿子继承产业。一次偶然的机会他相中了一个名叫带水的渔家女，于是买了好多时髦的东西送给带水的父母作为聘礼。而正值怀春佳龄的带水却看上了周的手下——风度翩翩的夏公子，夏公子以捧带水做明星的托口哄住她。怎料带水举止粗俗，品性不羁，忍受不了严格的瘦身美体的训练。而一直暗恋带水的炒蚬仔公子娇眼看着心上人执迷不悟地做富贵痴梦，展开了一场谐趣层生的夺妻大战……

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.