And He Built a Crooked House

When I think of 1940's science-fiction, I think of tin can robots and flying saucers. Once in a while I'm reminded that this is not the case, and the former is attributed more towards old B rated movies. And He Built a Crooked House is a short story about an architect who builds a house modeled after a flattened 4 dimmensional cube, or tesseract, and after an earthquake, it collapses in on itself, trapping the people inside. I wouldn't have guessed that this story was from 1940.

And He Built a Crooked House by Robert A. Heinlein