Ring (Ring #1)
Ring (Ring #1)
Author: Kōji Suzuki
Desc: 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.