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Midnight Timetable

A Novel in Ghost Stories

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By Bora Chung

Translated by Anton Hur

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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 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 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, Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time’s greatest imaginations. 
 

Genre:

  • "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

On Sale
Sep 30, 2025
Page Count
208 pages
Publisher
Algonquin Books
ISBN-13
9781643756639

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Bora Chung

Bora Chung

About the Author

Bora Chung is a writer and translator whose works include the National Book Award finalist and International Booker Prize-shortlisted Cursed Bunny and Your Utopia. She has an MA in Russian Studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana University. She has taught Russian language and literature and science fiction at Yonsei University and translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean.

Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and the translator of many iconic Korean SFF works including Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny, Kim Choyeop’s If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light, Lee Young-do’s The Bird That Drinks Tears, Kim Sung-il’s Blood of the Old Kings, and Park Seolyeon’s A Magical Girl Retires.

 
 

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