The Midnight Timetable

By: Bora Chung, Anton Hur - translation

Narrated by: Greta Jung

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.

©2025 Bora Chung (P)2026 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

'With a bone-dry wit and biting allegorical edge, expertly captured in Hur's translation, Chung turns the haunted-object trope into a vehicle for radical empathy and sharp critique.' (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

'Electrifying. A feast of a book. Strange, hypnotic and audacious.' (Irenosen Okojie, award-winning author of Butterfly Fish)