Description
Title: Midnight Timetable, The
Author: CHUNG BORA
Illustrator: HUR ANTON(TRANS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/09/2025
Imprint: SCRIBE
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a new novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research centre that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it’s disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they’re running from are their own …
The acclaimed Korean horror and sci-fi writer’s goosebump-inducing new book follows an employee on the night shift at the Institute. They soon learn why some employees don’t last long at the centre. The handkerchief in Room 302 once belonged to the late mother of two sons, whose rivalry imbues the handkerchief with undue power and unravels those around it. The cursed sneaker down the hall is stolen by a live-streaming, ghost-chasing employee, who later finds he can’t escape its tread. A cat in Room 206 reveals the crimes of its former family, trying to understand its own path to the Institute’s halls.
But Chung’s haunted institute isn’t just a chilling place to play. As in her astounding collections Cursed Bunny and Your Utopia, these violent allegories take on the horrors of animal testing, conversion therapy, domestic abuse, and late-stage capitalism. Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny, and deeply political, The Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time’s greatest imaginations.
‘Beautiful, eerie stories that are unpredictable and sprawl endlessly.’
-Kang Hwa-gil, author of Another Person
‘The keen insights into a society and the nonstop pacing of the folk tales kept me on the edge of my seat.’
-Kim Bo-Young, author of National Book Award-longlisted On the Origin of Species and Other Stories
‘I love the creatures who populate the Haunted Institute of Bora Chung’s mind – handkerchiefs with vendettas, jackets that weep in marbles, wounded, oracular sheep. Midnight Timetable is enigmatic, wild, and fun, even while making deep and provocative points about the dark joys suffering makes available. A fascinating novel of shifting realities centered by a steady, humane heart. Bora Chung is a master of concocting dreamscapes that linger.’
-Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland
ISBN: 9781761381690
Weight: 1g
Dimension: 1mm X 1mm
Pages: 208