The Midnight Timetable
On sale
2nd October 2025
Price: £14.99
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 story – of cursed objects hidden behind security glass, of lives unspooled by vengeance, sorrow or revelation. These tales are not mere ghost stories. They’re warnings. Lessons. Or perhaps confessions.
As the nights stretch on and reality frays, the protagonist starts to suspect that the building itself is alive with malevolent intent – that the objects aren’t just cursed, but 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
Each evening, as the fluorescent lights hum and the silence grows heavier, the guard shares another story – of cursed objects hidden behind security glass, of lives unspooled by vengeance, sorrow or revelation. These tales are not mere ghost stories. They’re warnings. Lessons. Or perhaps confessions.
As the nights stretch on and reality frays, the protagonist starts to suspect that the building itself is alive with malevolent intent – that the objects aren’t just cursed, but 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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Beautiful, eerie stories that are unpredictable and sprawl endlessly.
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