{"id":31665,"date":"2025-07-30T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31665\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:52:13","slug":"cheon-seon-rans-vampire-novel-the-midnight-shift-set-for-uk-release-by-bloomsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31665\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheon Seon-ran\u2019s vampire novel \u2018The Midnight Shift\u2019 set for UK release by Bloomsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/news-p.v1.20250730.8436613763e743f686189d6ccea24a70_P1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Midnight Shift&quot; by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png (Bloomsbury)\"\/>     &#8220;The Midnight Shift&#8221; by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png (Bloomsbury)  <\/p>\n<p>South Korean novelist Cheon Seon-ran\u2019s dark fantasy &#8220;The Midnight Shift&#8221; is set to be released in the UK next month in a translation by Gene Png, the Korean publisher Safehouse said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The English edition is being published by Bloomsbury, the British house best known for the Harry Potter series.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in Korea in 2021 under the title &#8220;The Savior Who Comes at Night,&#8221; the novel follows Su-yeon, a detective numbed by loneliness, as she investigates a string of mysterious deaths at a hospital. At one crime scene, she runs into a mysterious woman, who claims to be a vampire hunter searching for her ex-lover and who is insistent that a vampire is behind the mysterious deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Translation rights to the book have been sold to Italy, Brazil and several other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Cheon is one of Korea\u2019s most popular science fiction and fantasy writers. Her breakout novel &#8220;A Thousand Blues&#8221; won the Grand Prize at the Korea Science Fiction Awards in 2020 and is headed for the big screen in the US, adapted for film by Warner Bros. Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>hwangdh@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Midnight Shift&#8221; by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png (Bloomsbury) South Korean novelist Cheon Seon-ran\u2019s dark fantasy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[29682,64,63,457,29680,134,29681],"class_list":{"0":"post-31665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-a-thousand-blues","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-books","12":"tag-cheon-seon-ran","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-the-midnight-shift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}