The thomas Ewen High school Prom
From Carrie (1974) by Stephen King

Carrieta White, a “chunky girl with pimples,” a weirdo, only-child, loner, with a psychotic born-again Christian for a mother, hardly fits the bill as the dream prom date for the boys at Thomas Ewen High School,  so she cannot believe her luck when she is asked to accompany archetypal high school hunk Tommy Ross. Even more incredibly Carrie and Tommy find themselves favourites to be voted King and Queen of the Prom. What they don’t know is that their evil classmate, Christine Hargensen, has suspended two buckets of pig’s blood from the rafters directly above the thrones: an act she will not live to regret.

Dmitri Karamazov’s Revel at Mokroye
From The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When Dmitri, the oldest and most notoriously hedonistic of the Karamazov brothers, appears unexpectedly one night in the small town of Mokroye with three thousand roubles in his pocket the local folk know what it betokens - a huge carousal. Sure enough he is followed by a wagon bearing copious provisions including four dozen bottles of champagne. Dancing girls and musicians are sent for and the entire village is roused from its beds. “What followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all were welcome” as Dmitri sets about winning back his love Grushenka, whom he suspects of two timing him with his own father.

Finnegan's Wake
From Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce

One “thirstay” just before “chrissormiss” Dublin builder Tim Finnegan falls to his death from his ladder after a few tipples too many.  His body is carried to his local pub  the “Mullingcan Inn” where it is laid out on a bed and a barrel of Guinness is placed at his head and a bottle of whisky by his feet. His family and friends gather for the wake, where they reminiscence about Tim and some of the more insalubrious episodes of his life. There is drinking, dancing and even a spot of cannibalism, until the guests’ revelry is interrupted by the unexpected and unwelcome revival of the deceased.

The Onion Cellar
From The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass

Dusseldorf 1948. In a damp cellar with a single window and filled with burlap covered crates and plank tables, nightspot owner Ferdinand Schmuh operates a successful crying club six nights of the week. There is no bar and no drink, just a ragtime band with a dwarf drummer. Bags of onions are passed round the guests with knives and chopping boards. The juice of the onions brings forth what the sorrows of the world could not, “a round human tear.” If enough onions are consumed, Schmuh’s theory goes, it will unlock hidden amorous urges in his clientele. One night a woman tears off her blouse in front of her son-in-law and an orgy commences.

The Anubis Orgy
From Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon

Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, American GI, Harvard graduate and possessor of a “magic penis”, travels through post World War Two Europe on a secret mission to track down a missing V2 rocket, and somehow manages to find time to have sex with just about every woman be meets along the way. In Poland he is invited on board the Anubis, a yacht touring the German lowlands, where the jovial multiethnic guests invite him to participate in an mass orgy on deck, which turns out to be as meticulously choreographed as an Olympics Opening Ceremony.