Kim Jong-il began his career as a genre fiction writer with his horror novel Body, which received the grand prize for the 2016 Golden Dragon Book Award. His other novels include Fingernails and The Island of Three Evils, highly acclaimed as horror masterpieces that gave him the nickname “Korean Ito Junji.” He also adapted the popular thriller comics Moss into a novel. His serial novels The Witch’s Girl and My Intimate Superhumans have gained a huge popularity among web fiction readers, proving his mastery in various genres from horror to mystery and fantasy romance.