editor's letter
Rumors and facts
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SPECIAL I read this mystery in 2017
Online bookstore sales rankings
Mystery Lovers' Choice
Library Information Naru Loan Rankings, Mysteria Readers' Vote
Exclusive Rankings - Asked Online Bookstore Aladdin

SPECIAL "Mom killed me, dad ate me"
"We're all floating here": Noh Jeong-tae
A Mother Goose's Story: Kim Yong-eon

My hobby is reading
Grace
The Virgin Mary
Chefs of the Battlefield
Black Money
The Passing Green Wind
Sonata of Atonement
Scapegoat Island
The Strange Book Story of a Book Collector
Suspicious Ace Has No Uniform

SUMMARY You are your own disaster, Sophocles' Oedipus the King: Kim Yong-eon
CULINARY Christie and Cream, 『At Bertram's Hotel』: Eun-ji Jeong
NONFICTION
Humans are the most fragile reed: Yoo Seong-ho
Wrongful Encounter: Lee Joo-hyun
MIRROR Stalemate, No Winner: Hong Han-byeol
MISSING LINK False 'Son of God' - Park Tae-won's ??Golden Tower?? : Kwon Eun

SHORT STORY
Kim Ji-woo's "Seed"
Song Si-woo, "The Fairy Is Innocent"
Kwak Jae-sik, "An Angel Descends on a Motorcycle"

novel

"Seed" is the work of new writer Jiwoo Kim, who won the short story category at the 1st Elixir Mystery Awards in 2017.
What happens in a rural Korean village between a wife suffering from an immoral husband and a young woman brought home by her husband, claiming to be pregnant with his child?
The ending, which follows the domestic thriller genre that is popular in the Korean mystery publishing world following the English-speaking world, is impressive.
Song Si-woo's short story "The Fairy is Innocent" begins with a refreshing premise: the tale of the "Fairy and the Woodcutter" is transformed into a bloody murder story.
Kwak Jae-sik's "An Angel Comes Down on a Motorcycle" is the latest in a series of anonymous detective stories set in the desolate Seoul of the 1940s.

Feature article

What mystery novels were popular in 2017? "Mysteria" investigated the mystery novels that sold the most copies across the four major online bookstores and were most frequently borrowed from libraries throughout the year.
It's worth noting how the list of works strongly recommended by twenty-five mystery enthusiasts, including writers, columnists, translators, and editors, and the list selected by avid readers of "Mysteria" differ from the sales and loan lists above.
Finally, we're excited to share with you an exclusive ranking of mystery/thriller enthusiasts from the online bookstore Aladdin.


The theme of the second special feature is ‘Wandering Words’.
When slogans, nursery rhymes, folktales, fairy tales, rumors, urban legends, and lies constantly ring in our ears, evoking the same fears and thrills they did decades ago, and when they seep into mystery novels, lulling us somewhere between rational reasoning and fantastical terror, when the power of words holds us captive, knowingly or unknowingly, how do we protect ourselves from their spell? The names often invoked here are Stephen King, Agatha Christie, and the nursery rhyme "Mother Goose."


Starting with this issue, a new writer joins 'NONFICTION'.
Profiler Lee Ju-hyeon, along with forensic scientist Yoo Seong-ho, will provide expert insight into the details behind real-life incidents.
Eun-ji Jeong's 'CULINARY' explores the 'taste of England' through 'At Bertram's Hotel', a work in which Agatha Christie freely expressed her culinary tastes.
Translator Hong Han-byeol's 'MIRROR' is about the 'Julia Wallace murder case' and PD, which has captivated British mystery writers for the longest time since Jack the Ripper.
Let's introduce James's reasoning together.
In 'MISSING LINK,' a corner that searches for the 'missing link' of mystery in Korean literature, we analyze 'Golden and Silver Tower,' a 'true story novel' written by Park Tae-won about the pseudo-religion Baekbaekgyo that caused a stir in Joseon in the 1930s.
Starting with this issue, the new 'SUMMARY' section looks back on the history of mystery novels through a single detective, a single book, or a single incident. In the first installment, Oedipus Rex was chosen as the 'first detective.'