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Don't Read This Book: A Korean Supernatural Horror Novel
Paperback
HumorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some stories want to be read. This one wants something more.
Han Min-ji is a linguistics graduate student who believes every text can be understood if you study it closely enough.
Then she finds the red book.
Hidden inside an antiquarian shop in Seoul's Insadong district, the weathered volume contains no author, no publication date, and only one warning:
Stop reading.
Min-ji ignores it.
At first, the book appears to be an unfinished collection of disturbing stories. Then new passages begin appearing between readings. Notes emerge in the margins. Names vanish from university records. People connected to the book leave behind memories that no longer agree.
Worst of all, the story begins writing about Min-ji.
As reality fractures around her, she joins a skeptical fellow researcher, searches for a missing professor, and seeks help from an elderly survivor who has spent decades trying to forget what the book showed her.
But the curse does not live in paper and ink alone.
It feeds on curiosity.
It survives through memory.
And once a reader needs to know what happens next, it has already begun.
Set against rain-soaked streets, university archives, forgotten rituals, and the hidden corners of modern Seoul, Don't Read This Book is an atmospheric supernatural horror novel about language, obsession, and the terrible danger of reaching the end.
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