The Inspiration for the New Major Motion Picture RINGS 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.
Ring Séries
Cette série plonge dans les recoins les plus sombres de l'horreur surnaturelle, où les vies ordinaires entrent en collision avec des phénomènes glaçants et inexplicables. Chaque épisode dévoile des mystères enveloppés de légendes urbaines et d'événements paranormaux qui défient la réalité même. Les lecteurs sont entraînés dans des enquêtes pleines de suspense sur l'origine de malédictions mortelles et d'événements énigmatiques. La série mélange magistralement la terreur psychologique avec des éléments de fiction policière et de récits de fantômes, laissant un impact troublant et mémorable.
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Spiral
- 283pages
- 10 heures de lecture
Pathologist Ando is at a low point in his life. His small son's death from drowning has resulted in the break-up of his marriage and he is suffering traumatic nightmares. Work is his only escape, and his world is shaken up by a series of mysterious deaths that seem to be caused by a deadly virus.
Loop
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Stunning Japanese novel with a chilling twist - the follow-up to Ring and Spiral. Kaoru's father, Hideyuki, lies dying in a Tokyo hospital, his body ravaged by viral cancer. This nightmarish incurable disease has sprung out of nowhere and has begun to affect organisms all over the planet. Twenty years ago Hideyki worked on a virtual reality project which replicated evolution on earth, called the Loop. The project failed when the organisms within it inexplicably stopped reproducing normally and started cloning. Nearly all of the other scientists who worked on the Loop are already dead - from cancer. To get to the heart of the mystery, Kaoru must travel to the other side of the planet, to the Mojave desert. The secret he encounters there will overturn everything he thought he knew about the world - and his own identity. In this suspense-filled follow-up to 'Ring' and 'Spiral', Suzuki masterfully confounds the reader with a stunning new twist on the Ring mythology.
Birthday
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
På omslaget: "This much-awaited return to the Ring universe features three short stories focusing on its female characters, with a theme of birth."