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Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
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ISBN10: 164375663X
ISBN13: 9781643756639
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781643756639
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
*A FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL* Like the objects collected in this deliciously haunting book, Midnight Timetable will absorb you in the shadows of its imagination, marvelous oddness, humor, and heart. --Gerardo Sámano Córdova From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center 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 center. The handkerchief in Room 302 once belonged to the late mother of two sons, whose rivalry imbues the handkerchief with undue power and unravels the lives of those who seek to possess it. Meanwhile a live-streaming, ghost-chasing employee steals a cursed sneaker down the hall, but later finds he can't escape its tread. The cat in Room 206 begins to reveal the crimes of its former family, wanting to understand its own path to the Institute's dimly lit 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 subtly excavate the horrors of animal cosmetic testing, conversion therapy, domestic abuse, and late-stage capitalism. Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny, and deeply political, Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time's greatest imaginations.
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