This book is incredibly good!!!! I loved it so so much!!
It’s not a found footage per se, but it does have a lot of found footage elements with other media that work better in books than film like mails and forum discussions. The setting is very classic, just your typical strange things happening in a building, but it’s so well done. I love the horror genre, but I’m not easily scared and most of the time, I end up being disappointed by the horror fiction I read or watch. I guess that the more you consume this genre, the less impressed you’re bound to be. But this book was so well executed: it has a good variety of “media” sometimes we follow the main characters, sometimes we watch or read past documents. It has extremely good and scary scenes, like the kind that really sends chills down your spine. Reading the book really felt like watching a film, it’s well written and reads very easily, once you started, it’s just impossible to put down. The end was excellent too.
죽은 집에 관한 기록
Jugeun jibe gwanhan girok
Author
전건우 (Jeon Geon-u) · Jeon Gunwoo
Language
Korean
Format
Novel
Published
2026
Pages
180
Read
2026-06-02 → 2026-06-05
Finished
Review
Updates
100%
I thought I would continue 죽은 집에 관한 기록 today because I didn’t touch it yesterday, and just like that I finished it. This is the definition of a page-turner!
57%
I’m stopping here for now, because it would be a shame to finish it too soon, but wow, this book could really be read in one sitting. I’m halfway through and so far it’s one of the best horror story I’ve read/watched (including films and series) in a while.
45%
This book is impossible to put down!!!
29%
This book is so so good!! Extremely suspenseful, I love it so far!
16%
I started it and read the first chapter, it’s so good!! It’s a documentary with some found footage elements. Reading it actually feels like watching a found footage film. I love it so far!
Characters
김도형
Gim Do-hyeongKim Do-hyung
Writer of film scenarios, especially horror and thriller.
박해수
Bak Hae-suPark Hae-soo
Novelist, friend of Dohyeong, also into horror and mysteries.
전우치
Jeon U-chiJeon Woo-chi
Nickname of a person in contact with Dohyeong through a forum. (전우치 is also the name of a famous Taoist scholar during Joseon)
천궁선녀
“cheongungseonnyeo”
Shaman contacted by Dohyeong
Vocabulary
| Word | Hanja | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 철두철미 | 徹頭徹尾 | thoroughness; completeness; exhaustiveness |
| 우후죽순 | 雨後竹筍 | bamboo shoots [sprouts] grow fast after a rainfall; mushrooming. |
| 정원초과 | 定員超過 | exceeding capacity |
| 철수 | 撤收 | evacuation; withdrawal |
| 음지 | 陰地 | shaded place; shaded spot |
| 임시방편 | 臨時方便 | temporary action; ad hoc measure |
| 갓난아기/갓난아이 | newborn baby | |
| 누린내 | stench | |
| 굴다리 | 窟다리 | underpass |
| 연립주택 | 聯立住宅 | Isn’t this just the “official” term for 빌라? |
| 주검 | dead body; corpse |