TY - GEN AU - Suzuki, Koji AU - Rohmer, Robert B. AU - Walley, Glynne TI - Ring SN - 9781932234411 U1 - 895.635 SUZ PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Verticle KW - Mystery fiction KW - Horror KW - Investigation thriller KW - Journalists KW - Japan KW - Novel KW - Blessing and cursing KW - Homicide investigation KW - Manners and customs N2 - 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. https://kodansha.us/product/ring ER -