Valley of the Croen

The story follows a resourceful mining man who is drawn by a mysterious, jewel-set golden statuette and the stranger who brings it, prompting him to organize an expedition into remote Korean wilderness. The party pursues caches of gold and traces of an isolated people who craft similar figures, only to encounter deadly phenomena—statues that irresistibly point a path and sudden deaths where strange flying disks land. Tension develops between greed, superstition, and unfamiliar powers, including a woman who claims subtle psychic arts, as the explorers confront both hidden culture and lethal otherworldly forces.