Ghost of the confiscated house
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Cocktail, Love, Zombie, Tropical Night Jo Ye-eun's new horror novel “Only in horror do the dead speak with their dead mouths. “While writing this piece, I thought for the first time, ‘It would be nice if it was scary.’” - Jo Ye-eun (novelist) The fourth book in the "Modern Literature Pin Genre" series, featuring the most modern and cutting-edge writers of contemporary Korean literature, is published, "The Ghost of the Enemy House" by Jo Ye-eun. "The Ghost of the Enemy House" is a revised version of the work that appeared in the December 2023 issue of "Modern Literature." It is Jo Ye-eun's new novel that chillingly and poignantly depicts the secret "horror" hidden in the gloomy enslaved house that symbolizes Japanese colonial rule and the "solidarity" of the three main characters, Yutaka, Park Jun-young, and Hyeon Un-ju, who have coexisted for generations. Author Jo Ye-eun, who created the Korean horror-thriller boom with 『Cocktail, Love, Zombie』 and 『Tropical Night』, began her career by winning the Excellence Award at the 『Golden Bough Time Leap Contest』 and the Grand Prize at the 『Kyobo Bookstore Story Contest』, and has received praise such as “an interesting subject matter, fast-paced development, and a revenge drama taken to the next level” (Hae I-su), “a unique power to unravel sensitive social issues” (In Ah-young), and “a world of ‘nevertheless’ that faces pessimism but does not give up” (Dahye Lee). The recently published "The Ghost of the Enemy House" begins with the strange death of the great-grandmother (Park Jun-young) on an early October morning after a strong wind blew all night. My great-grandmother collapsed in the annex of the Japanese colonial house where she had lived for over 50 years, with one ear pressed against the floor as if trying to hear a sound coming from below, and never got up again. And I (Hyun Woon-joo), who came to live in a confiscated house according to my great-grandmother's will, encounter the pitiful and terrifying ghost, Yutaka Kanemoto, and then come face to face with the terrifying secret hidden in the annex of the confiscated house where I have lived for a long time, holding blood, screams, secrets, and fire. The author, who said, “Only horror makes the dead speak with their dead mouths,” reveals that this was the first time she wrote this work with the thought, “I hope it’s scary,” and heralds the birth of a new horror novel by Jo Ye-eun. |
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Ghost of the confiscated house
Preface: From Guest to Ghost (Kim Cheong-gyul)
Author's Note
Preface: From Guest to Ghost (Kim Cheong-gyul)
Author's Note
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Into the book
The house remembers all the history contained within its walls.
Even if the person living inside dies, the house remains.
Rather, by death, one becomes part of that house forever.
A house exists to contain someone's life unless it is destroyed first.
--- p.10
One day, with the new year just around the corner, I stepped inside the Red Wall House for the first time in ten years.
And there, we encounter ghosts that have existed for decades, for generations.
Yutaka Kanemoto.
It is the name of a pitiful and terrible ghost.
--- pp.50~51
The boy was, in a word, ominous.
It was like a crow hovering over a graveyard, or a doll that was already dead and possessed by an evil spirit.
Sometimes, when I was floating in the pool, I felt like a fish with its belly exposed in a rotten pond.
The boy's antics and cruelty often went so far as to make me think, though I am not a believer, that he had given his soul to the devil.
--- pp.88~89
All that's left inside me is the familiar pain, all the scenes that haven't happened yet, and... ...a heart that waits for the right time.
--- p.123
What I needed was not care, but truth.
--- p.170
An image of the day my great-grandmother died flashed through my mind.
Dream scenes passing by like faded film, a basement of blood and pain.
The circular door leading to truth opened smoothly.
With bleary eyes, I looked at the floor where I had put my ear.
Like the foolish protagonists in the novels written by my great-grandmother.
--- p.171
What had happened and what was to happen next flowed into me with overwhelming clarity.
I reached out to chase the fragments that were so clearly visible, and the last thing I saw was the roof engulfed in flames, and I was plunged into darkness.
Even if the person living inside dies, the house remains.
Rather, by death, one becomes part of that house forever.
A house exists to contain someone's life unless it is destroyed first.
--- p.10
One day, with the new year just around the corner, I stepped inside the Red Wall House for the first time in ten years.
And there, we encounter ghosts that have existed for decades, for generations.
Yutaka Kanemoto.
It is the name of a pitiful and terrible ghost.
--- pp.50~51
The boy was, in a word, ominous.
It was like a crow hovering over a graveyard, or a doll that was already dead and possessed by an evil spirit.
Sometimes, when I was floating in the pool, I felt like a fish with its belly exposed in a rotten pond.
The boy's antics and cruelty often went so far as to make me think, though I am not a believer, that he had given his soul to the devil.
--- pp.88~89
All that's left inside me is the familiar pain, all the scenes that haven't happened yet, and... ...a heart that waits for the right time.
--- p.123
What I needed was not care, but truth.
--- p.170
An image of the day my great-grandmother died flashed through my mind.
Dream scenes passing by like faded film, a basement of blood and pain.
The circular door leading to truth opened smoothly.
With bleary eyes, I looked at the floor where I had put my ear.
Like the foolish protagonists in the novels written by my great-grandmother.
--- p.171
What had happened and what was to happen next flowed into me with overwhelming clarity.
I reached out to chase the fragments that were so clearly visible, and the last thing I saw was the roof engulfed in flames, and I was plunged into darkness.
--- pp.186~187
Publisher's Review
I am an invited guest there
A fugitive looking for an exit
I ended up becoming a ghost that belongs to me forever.
Long hours of blood and screams,
A house that lives on, holding onto secrets and fire!
Strange mysteries hidden in a four-generation enemy-owned house
During the Japanese colonial period, Kanemoto, a wealthy Japanese merchant who settled in Joseon, and his only son Yutaka are hated and cursed by Junyoung, the Joseon caregiver.
To Jun-young, who struggles to survive as a colonized citizen, Kanemoto's red-floored house symbolizes both the pinnacle of wealth and the remnants of a resentful past.
Junyoung, who thought Yutaka was a sensitive and violent child who showed his self-harm because of his weak constitution, finds out that he is actually Kanemoto's adopted son and is being exploited by his father. He feels a sense of connection mixed with pity for Yutaka.
The story shifts to the present day in the 2020s, where Nae (Hyun Woon-joo), Jun-young's great-granddaughter, is exposed to the subtle violence of her husband, Woo Hyung-min, who is after her death insurance money under the pretext of marriage.
The ghost of Yutaka, who has existed in the Red Wall House for generations, reveals itself to me from time to time, and I think I am going mad because of the terrible ghost.
In my dream, I become my great-grandmother and learn about Yutaka's true identity, and Yutaka finally whispers to me the words I have been holding in my heart.
“I will kill my father.” This masterpiece depicts the dark and gruesome secrets and supernatural phenomena of a family at a turbulent time in our history in a uniquely Cho Ye-eun-style horror style.
In her “Author’s Note,” author Jo Ye-eun states that “the emotions that the dead were unable to resolve in their lives are not lumped together in the past, but invade the present.” She also confesses that she “likes the misery and sorrow” of the dead who “reveal their presence, even if it is mean and faint.”
As Kim Cheong-gyul said in the preface that “the delicate beauty that shines even in fear and strangeness and the heart that makes people human” are the “force that makes you read Jo Ye-eun’s novels to the end,” 『The Ghost of the Red House』, where “a single scene remains deeply in the mind, and even after reading the whole book, that scene pops into your head for days,” certainly gives us a distinct, long-lasting, cool ‘warmth.’
So, it makes it possible to reflect on life as a truly supernatural experience that transcends time and space: “At first, you are a guest invited to a confined house, while reading, you are a fugitive trapped in the confined house looking for a way out, and after reading, you become a ghost who is forever part of the confined house.”
“A house remembers all the history contained within its walls.
Even if the person living inside dies, the house remains.
Rather, by death, one becomes part of that house forever.
“A house exists to contain someone’s life unless it is destroyed first.”
Author's Note
I like bitterness and sadness.
The only thing that can make others tremble in fear is writing.
It can also be done in a very gentle way, in the form of imagination, that doesn't actually cause any harm.
While writing this piece, for the first time I thought, 'I wish it was scary.'
I have to write more, scarier stories in the future.
A scary story for some and a heartbreaking story for others.
_From the author's note
A fugitive looking for an exit
I ended up becoming a ghost that belongs to me forever.
Long hours of blood and screams,
A house that lives on, holding onto secrets and fire!
Strange mysteries hidden in a four-generation enemy-owned house
During the Japanese colonial period, Kanemoto, a wealthy Japanese merchant who settled in Joseon, and his only son Yutaka are hated and cursed by Junyoung, the Joseon caregiver.
To Jun-young, who struggles to survive as a colonized citizen, Kanemoto's red-floored house symbolizes both the pinnacle of wealth and the remnants of a resentful past.
Junyoung, who thought Yutaka was a sensitive and violent child who showed his self-harm because of his weak constitution, finds out that he is actually Kanemoto's adopted son and is being exploited by his father. He feels a sense of connection mixed with pity for Yutaka.
The story shifts to the present day in the 2020s, where Nae (Hyun Woon-joo), Jun-young's great-granddaughter, is exposed to the subtle violence of her husband, Woo Hyung-min, who is after her death insurance money under the pretext of marriage.
The ghost of Yutaka, who has existed in the Red Wall House for generations, reveals itself to me from time to time, and I think I am going mad because of the terrible ghost.
In my dream, I become my great-grandmother and learn about Yutaka's true identity, and Yutaka finally whispers to me the words I have been holding in my heart.
“I will kill my father.” This masterpiece depicts the dark and gruesome secrets and supernatural phenomena of a family at a turbulent time in our history in a uniquely Cho Ye-eun-style horror style.
In her “Author’s Note,” author Jo Ye-eun states that “the emotions that the dead were unable to resolve in their lives are not lumped together in the past, but invade the present.” She also confesses that she “likes the misery and sorrow” of the dead who “reveal their presence, even if it is mean and faint.”
As Kim Cheong-gyul said in the preface that “the delicate beauty that shines even in fear and strangeness and the heart that makes people human” are the “force that makes you read Jo Ye-eun’s novels to the end,” 『The Ghost of the Red House』, where “a single scene remains deeply in the mind, and even after reading the whole book, that scene pops into your head for days,” certainly gives us a distinct, long-lasting, cool ‘warmth.’
So, it makes it possible to reflect on life as a truly supernatural experience that transcends time and space: “At first, you are a guest invited to a confined house, while reading, you are a fugitive trapped in the confined house looking for a way out, and after reading, you become a ghost who is forever part of the confined house.”
“A house remembers all the history contained within its walls.
Even if the person living inside dies, the house remains.
Rather, by death, one becomes part of that house forever.
“A house exists to contain someone’s life unless it is destroyed first.”
Author's Note
I like bitterness and sadness.
The only thing that can make others tremble in fear is writing.
It can also be done in a very gentle way, in the form of imagination, that doesn't actually cause any harm.
While writing this piece, for the first time I thought, 'I wish it was scary.'
I have to write more, scarier stories in the future.
A scary story for some and a heartbreaking story for others.
_From the author's note
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: June 25, 2024
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 212 pages | 296g | 104*182*21mm
- ISBN13: 9791167902580
- ISBN10: 1167902580
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