Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
About
At a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, a night-shift employee discovers that the Institute operates by rules that don't apply in daylight. Doors disappear behind you. The footsteps echoing down the corridor might be your own. The objects in storage don't stay where you left them. Each shift brings a new ghost story — and each ghost story reveals something about the Institute that the daytime staff would rather not acknowledge. Bora Chung, whose Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, structures this novel as a series of interconnected hauntings that accumulate into something larger: a portrait of an institution built on containment and the inevitable failure of containment. The horror is atmospheric, precise, and laced with Chung's signature dark humor. A novel-in-ghost-stories about the things we lock away — and the doors they keep finding.
