Midnight Timetable

From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny,comes a novel-in-ghost-storiesset in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objectswhere those who open the wrong door might find it’s disappeared behind themor 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 sonswhose rivalry imbues the handkerchief with undue power and unravels the lives of those who seek to possess it. Meanwhile a live-streamingghost-chasing employee steals a cursed sneaker down the hallbut later finds he can’t escape its tread. The cat in Room 206 begins to reveal the crimes of its former familywanting to understand its own path to the Institute’s dimly lit halls. But Chung’s haunted institute isn’t just a chilling place to play. As in her astounding collections Cursed Bunny and Your Utopiathese violent allegories subtly excavate the horrors of animal cosmetic testing\