The highly anticipated new novel from Bora Chung, author of the National Book Award finalist and International Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny
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.
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.
‘Disturbing, chilling, wrenching, and absolute genius’ Frances Cha on Cursed Bunny
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.
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.
‘Disturbing, chilling, wrenching, and absolute genius’ Frances Cha on Cursed Bunny
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Reviews
Chung builds out her stories with imagination, absurdity and a dry sense of humor, all applied with X-Acto knife precision.
[A] get-under-your-skin collection
Beautiful, eerie stories that are unpredictable and sprawl endlessly.
Bora Chung's stories glisten at the border of our weird world, and all our other weird worlds. A truly sublime book.
The keen insights into a society and the nonstop pacing of the folk tales kept me on the edge of my seat.
Frightening, fantastical and oddly funny . . . Absurdist horror with a feminist slant.
Haunting, funny, gross, terrifying-and yet when we reach the end, we just want more.