Ring

Ring by Suzuki, Koji. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781932234008.

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 nieces inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern societys fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tapes mystery before its 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 Suzukis novel the Ring has lead to manga, television and film adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.