REF-001
Fan reference
Kim Soleum
Kim Soleum is the protagonist of Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work: a reader who finds himself inside the supernatural setting he knows from the fictional Darkness Exploration Records.
Records of
Dark Exploration
어둠탐사기록Public reading index
Reference records and original fiction. Sources are filed with each entry.
Reading notes ↗REF-002
Fan reference
Daydream Inc.
Daydream Inc. turns ghost stories into a supply chain. Its field explorers enter the Darkness, collect Dream Essence and build survival manuals, while the company offers money, equipment and the possibility of a wish.
REF-003
Fan reference
Supernatural Disaster Management Bureau
The Supernatural Disaster Management Bureau is a government organization concerned with paranormal incidents, civilian rescue and the possibility of bringing ghost stories to an end.
REF-004
Fan reference
Welcome to Abyss Transportation Corporation
An ordinary subway journey becomes a ghost story used in Daydream's new-employee orientation. Welcome to Abyss Transportation Corporation is an early introduction to the danger behind the company's recruitment process.
REF-005
Fan reference
A Fun Theme Park!
A Fun Theme Park! links a board game with a disturbing amusement-park setting. The fan record presents a holiday pastime that becomes a place people describe entering.
REF-006
Fan reference
Braun's Late Night Talk Show
Braun's Late Night Talk Show is a supernatural broadcast setting associated with the earlier name Tuesday Quiz Show. Its presentation draws on the style of a 1970s American television talk show.
ORG-001
Original fiction
The Window Census
Original fiction written for this archive, separate from the novel's canon. A municipal surveyor counts every lit window on an empty street. By morning, the street has counted something in return.
ORG-002
Original fiction
The Bell at Low Water
Original fiction written for this archive, separate from the novel's canon. A drought exposes a bell in the bed of Morrow Weir. Its missing tower begins to appear in the town's oldest photographs.
REF-007
Fan reference
Hello Traffic Info
A radio associated with Daydream's D Squad delivers something stranger than a traffic bulletin: a forecast of the listener's day. Its ordinary office presence makes it a compact introduction to supernatural objects in the workplace.
REF-008
Fan reference
Make a Choice
An internet-style bargain becomes a Daydream field assignment. Make a Choice draws on the familiar question of whether someone would accept a frightening challenge for money, then turns that hypothetical into an encounter.
REF-009
Fan reference
The Clown Hates You
A corridor lined with clown portraits becomes a hostile environment. The Clown Hates You connects an unsettling online advertisement with a place where familiar hallway architecture offers little reassurance.
REF-010
Fan reference
The Dilemma
The Dilemma takes the form of black cards associated with tarot imagery and possible future events. It moves the source of unease from an unfamiliar place to an apparently small decision.
REF-011
Fan reference
Space Shopping Mall
Also called the Alien Store in the cited fan reference, Space Shopping Mall is an online market where nonhuman sellers offer unusual goods to human customers. Its awkward early-internet appearance hides an extraordinary delivery service.
REF-012
Fan reference
Agent Bronze
Agent Bronze is a Bureau rescue operative whose encounters with Soleum connect the company's side of the story with the government response to supernatural incidents. The cited character overview places him alongside Agent Choi.
ORG-003
Original fiction
The Room Tone Tape
Original fiction for this archive, separate from the novel's canon. A sound restorer receives a recording of an empty room. Every noise she removes from the tape disappears from the building around her.
ORG-004
Original fiction
The Coatroom Below Larch House
Original fiction for this archive, separate from the novel's canon. Beneath a demolished hotel, a coatroom continues to accept tickets. The attendant returns each coat with something its owner has spent years trying to put down.
REF-013
Fan reference
Manor of the Blind
Despite its manor-like name, this Daydream-associated ghost story takes the form of an exhibition. Its welcome conceals a disturbing economy: visitors who cannot pay may lose parts of their bodies.
REF-014
Fan reference
Sangun-nim
An ink landscape becomes the center of a Daydream-explored ghost story. Mountains and mist that first seem distant begin to intrude through dreams, changing images and voices calling from within the scene.
REF-015
Fan reference
Don't Look in the Mirror
A mirrored elevator becomes an encounter associated with truthful answers. Daydream uses it in connection with prospective Wish Ticket recipients, giving a small apartment lift a place within the company's reward system.
REF-016
Fan reference
Looky Mart
Looky Mart is a supermarket phenomenon documented by the Bureau. Behind the recognizable routines of shopping, trapped civilians encounter a store connected with a former grocery chain and shoppers from its past.