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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.
In a labyrinthine research facility, 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, an unnamed protagonist begins their night shift under the watchful eye of the building’s enigmatic senior guard.
Each evening, as the fluorescent lights hum and the silence grows heavier, the guard shares another tale of cursed objects and lives unspooled by vengeance, sorrow, or revelation. But these are not mere ghost stories. They’re warnings. Lessons. Or, perhaps, confessions ...
As the nights stretch on and reality frays, our protagonist starts to suspect that the building itself is alive with malevolent intent and that the objects they guard aren’t just cursed.
They’re waiting. Watching.
Author: Bora Chung
Paperback Published 30 September 2025 208 pages
‘Each chapter reclaims the joyous fright of sharing ghost stories and urban legends around the campfire … Chung knows how to entertain and unnerve simultaneously, while tucking in commentary on the modern world … A must-have socially aware horror novel.’ Library Journal, starred review
‘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