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.

'Truly nightmarish' Andrew Michael Hurley
'I inhaled Bora Chung's book of ghost stories and then slept with the light on!' Avni Doshi
'Uniquely brilliant and exquisitely demented' Gerardo Sámano Córdova

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 flicker 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.

'Electrifying. A feast of a book. Strange, hypnotic and audacious' Irenosen Okojie
'A fascinating novel of shifting realities centred by a steady, humane heart. Bora Chung is a master of concocting dreamscapes that linger' Marie-Helene Bertino
'These ghost stories . . . mist off the page and leave the real world hazy and askew' Pemi Aguda

"It is rare that you find a writer so happy to throw caution to the wind and craft stories that feel so new and fresh. If you are looking for something spooky, silly and simultaneously meaningful, The Midnight Timetable is the book for you." - Buzz

"Chung's partnership with translator Anton Hur continues to bear fruit here; the stories have a nicely wry style, accessibly rendered." - Telegraph

"Chung is mordantly eerie and funny." - Irish Times

"The steady accumulation of cruelty may not be for all readers, but it leaves an unnerving but thrilling impression." - Daily Mirror

"Entertaining . . . Some stories are poignant, some funny and some genuinely unsettling. All are nuanced and provocative." - Morning Star