Friday: Forbidden Tales - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 46
• 2012 - 2016

As a man witnesses his wife being kidnapped by an unidentified 'thing,' he throws himself into a manhole to track down the creature to rescue his beloved. While he is out to save his wife, he encounters unspeakably dark secrets behind a North Korean research connected with the monstrous creation. Would he be able to unveil the truth and safely save his pregnant wife?

• Ch: 82+
• 2021 - ?

"I think my mother is a killer." Gil So-Myeong, who has excellent grades, good manners, and an exemplary child, has lived as a perfect daughter according to the standards her mother demanded. However on the day that his younger brother rises from the river as a corpse, a terrifying suspicion rises in So-Myeong's mind. A cruel mother-daughter thriller between a mother who tries to get rid of everything that interferes with her child's life and a daughter who tries to escape from her!

• Vol: 8+; Ch: 50+
• 2018 - ?

Masahiko Mariyama, a small-time businessman, lives a modest life with his wife, two children, and dementia-stricken mother. Then one day, the people disappeared from the town! In the midst of his confusion, he is summoned to a place where he finds seven families and giant dolls. And so begins a compulsory recreational activity. No one is allowed to escape, and the winner will receive a luxurious prize, while the last place winner will be punished. One of them is sacrificed at a family meeting! 

• Vol: 5; Ch: 80
• 2008 - 2010

After the death of his estranged father, a young man travels to a strange countryside town to take care of the funeral arrangements. With his own life in shambles, he decides to stay but finds the village people less than welcoming. Their odd behavior and the things his father left behind, leads him on a dangerous path to a truth that might be better left buried.

• Ch: 6
• 2019

• Ch: 88
• 2018 - 2019

Jongu Yun is a young man in his 20s who moves to Seoul and rents a cheap room in a run-down building because he is low on money. The place is dilapidated and the residents are creepy, but Jongu decides to stay until he has enough money to move elsewhere. However, when mysterious events occur, Jongu realizes that the residents may be more suspicious than they seemed.

• Ch: 110
• 2017 - 2018

There is a serial killer living among us! Don't make him angry...

• Ch: 45
• 2021 - 2022

Having escaped her abusive mother, twenty-year-old Ji-a lives a modest life with her little sister, Su-a. When Su-a does not return from her field trip under sinister circumstances, Ji-a vows to do anything she can to get her sister back. As she and her high school friend Wonseung delve further into the mystery, they find that there might be a larger conspiracy under the surface -- a tangled web that includes a cult, a mystery, and powerful figures that might shake South Korea to its core.

• Ch: 23
• 2022

One day Mia finds Yuji, an old friend from high school, waiting for her outside her house. She reluctantly agrees to go with him to a night market which turns out to be run by demons. To make matters worse, they can't seem to escape. Does Yuji know more about this strange place than he lets on?

• Ch: 30
• 2015

Struggling photographer Kim Soo-hyun is drowning his sorrows in the park one night when he finds himself confronted by a beautiful young woman insisting he allow her to model for him. Eventually, he accepts, but before long he comes to discover the dark secrets she is hiding…