One night in Tokyo, four healthy teenagers die one after another of heart failure. A journalist, the uncle of one of the victims and intrigued by the coincidence, investigates and learns of a videotape that the four watched together a week before dying. Amid a series of bizarre and frightening images is a warning that the viewer will die in exactly one week unless a certain act is performed. The description of the act, of course, has been erased from the videotape, and the journalist's work to solve the mystery assumes a deadly urgency. Ring is not only a chillingly told horror story but also a shrewdly intelligent and subversive commentary on the power of imagery and contagious consumerism. Ring spawned one of Japan's highest-grossing films ever as well as the blockbuster DreamWorks remake starring Naomi Watts. The Japanese version of the novel has sold almost 3 million copies. In addition to being dubbed "the Stephen King of Japan," Koji Suzuki is a respected authority on child rearing. He likes to roam Japan in his RV and has written about fulfilling his lifelong dream of riding his motorcycle across the United States, from Los Angeles to Key West. Suzuki is based in Tokyo.
Ring Reeks
Deze serie duikt in de donkerste hoeken van bovennatuurlijke horror, waar het gewone leven botst met angstaanjagende, onverklaarbare verschijnselen. Elke aflevering ontrafelt mysteries gehuld in stedelijke legendes en paranormale gebeurtenissen die de realiteit zelf uitdagen. Lezers worden meegezogen in spannende onderzoeken naar de oorsprong van dodelijke vloeken en raadselachtige gebeurtenissen. De serie combineert meesterlijk psychologische terreur met elementen van detectivefictie en spookverhalen, wat een beklemmende en onvergetelijke indruk achterlaat.
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Spiral
- 283bladzijden
- 10 uur lezen
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
- 480bladzijden
- 17 uur lezen
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
- 224bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
På omslaget: "This much-awaited return to the Ring universe features three short stories focusing on its female characters, with a theme of birth."