Where To Read 'Got Dropped Into A Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work'?

My friend literally forced me to look at my phone while reading out this webcomic 'Got dropped into a ghost story, still gotta work.'. As it turns out, this novel has been beautifully illustrated into a webcomic found on this really popular webcomic site. The panels of the webcomic are really well done and they capture the main character’s deadpan expression really well. I finished reading it all in one day and I’m kinda really obsessed with it right now. It balances dread and drudgery really well.

You can find the illustrated story on a variety of websites, including aggregator sites like that upends thing and comicfuzz. Early chapters of ‘Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Have to Work’ are available for free on the creator’s Patreon account. The comments on the illustrated story have been great too, with people sharing their own ghostly workplace encounters and such. And as for audiobooks, there’s actually a fan made podcast of the story, complete with sound effects, that makes the jump scares really scary. It’s a very versatile story, and it’s great to read it in different ways.

I found this novel through the subreddit r/noveltranslations, ‘Got dropped into a ghost story, still gotta work’ is so much better than it sounds. I’m really enjoying the protagonists’ inner monologue, which is written in a similar style to (semi-)seriously sarcastic blog posts. It’s posted on a site that specializes in translated web fiction, updated weekly. The translator also leaves notes for certain things that might not be obvious to non-culture-specific readers, like why certain types of ghosts are in the story. It’s my new lunch read – nothing like the stress of supernatural horror to make my real job seem mildly interesting. It’s a really great blend of corporate satire and horror.

I read “Got dropped into a ghost story, still gotta work” in a thread on a small specialized forum for people interested in supernatural fiction. I really liked the unusual take on the classic isekai story of “someone gets transported to a fantasy world and has to deal with it while still living in the real world”. I found it on a site that specializes in “indie web novels”. In addition to the full novel, there is also a community of fans and the author is actively involved and posts updates to the novel on a regular basis. People make all sorts of detailed comments and theories about the story after every update. The story is a really fun mix of horror and office work/ life, the writing is very witty and the many encounters with ghosts in the story are all really relatable, even if they are set in a world of the dead rather than in an office.

Since then, I’ve been seeing occasional references to ‘Got dropped into a ghost story, still gotta work’ on social media — mostly in groups dedicated to indie web novels that contain plenty of quirky genre-bending. Some of the fans even have made fan art depicting the protagonist dodging ghosts while at work and filing reports about the strange occurrences. Yes, this is a story that grows on you very quickly. It can make you laugh one second and then have you worried about whatever might be lurking in the dark of that corner over there. So, check out the author’s profile occasionally because sometimes he’ll have written up some bonus material or a behind-the-scenes look at what inspired certain ghosts.