Suzuki, Koji  <br/><br/>
Ring 

 - New York:  Verticle,  2016. 
 - 282p.:  pbk.:  20cm. 
<br/><br/> The Inspiration for the New Major Motion Picture RINGSA 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. 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. The success of Koji Suzuki's novel the Ring has lead to manga, television and film adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.<br/><br/>https://kodansha.us/product/ring 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781932234411 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mystery fiction<br/>Horror <br/>Investigation thriller<br/>Journalists<br/>Japan<br/>Novel<br/>Blessing and cursing<br/>Homicide investigation<br/>Manners and customs
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>895.635 SUZ