A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after wathching 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 a post-modern trip.
" [Suzuki's] stories have a unique, alchemical quality ot them and he has demonstrated a miraculous power for transmuting the very common into the very frightening."
--Rue Morgue--
" Ring is a written as a sonnet. It is an engine of disquiet."
--John Clute, Science Fiction Weekly--