num_pages: 282
description: 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.
language: English
title: Ring
titlecomplete: Ring (Ring, #1)
characters: Sadako Yamamura
genres: Thriller, Japanese Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Japan, Mystery, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal
ratings_count: 22028
places: Yokohama, Hakone, Atami, Tokyo, Yokosuka, Izu Ōshima
series: リング [Ring]
publisher: Vertical