This article engages in an exploration of a Korean American speculative fiction, Minsoo Kang's Of Tales and Enigmas, that has already gone out of print despite being published in 2006. I explore why this work has been overlooked, detailing the complicated positioning of Kang's work vis-a-vis discourses of speculative fiction and Korean American literatures. I then move to an analysis of some key short stories that provide an apparatus into considering how the collection can be reclaimed as a work of archival recovery. I focus on the ways that Kang deploys a historian-archivist as a narrator, who helps to cohere stories disparate in style, content, and cultural specificity. I ultimately argue that this storytelling figure focuses on female figures who are jeopardized in the context of war and violence, recentering these women through speculative tropes, including cyborg subjectivity and ghostliness., GROWING UP, I RECOGNIZED HOW VASTLY DIFFERENT MY MOTHER'S STORIES were from those of my friends' mothers. And like any child who perceives such differences, they changed me. They also [...]