Ring
Koji Suzuki
Vertical
<p>The Inspiration for the New Major Motion Picture RINGS  </p>
<p>A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.   </p>
<p>Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.   </p>
<p>The success of Koji Suzuki's novel the <em>Ring</em> has lead to manga, television and film adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.</p>
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