KDL Recommends

Ring

ISBN: 1932234004

Title: Ring

Author: Koji Suzuki

KDL Description:

While inspiring both the Japanese and America movies of the same name, the book reads much more like a mystery novel than the twisted tale of horror exemplified by the films. Although, it certainly has its moments.
-Erik at the Tyrone Township branch

Amazon Description:

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.

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.