Koji Suzuki

"Elemento imprescindible para la vida, el agua se transforma en heraldo de la muerte y en germen del terror primigenio.Una madre acosada por la presencia intangible de una niña ahogada, un crucero de ensueño que se convierte en pesadilla, un padre atrapado en una gruta hasta la hora final Ya sea sobre las aguas oscuras y amenazadoras del mar o sobre el agua estancada y putrefacta de un edificio abandonado, las historias de Koji Suzuki navegan en el oceano del horror, la angustia y el panico.La alucinacion y los fantasmas imaginarios producto del panico, el miedo o la obsesion, bastan para conseguir la atmosfera de pavor, amenaza y peligro que acompaña siempre los relatos de Suzuki."

Lorsqu'il pratique l'autopsie de son ami Ryuji, le médecin légiste Mitsuo Ando est loin de se douter qu'il va plonger dans l'irrationnel et le cauchemar.Comment est-il possible qu'un petit bout de papier se trouve au milieu des organes de son camarade de faculte avec juste ce message enigmatique : " Ring " ? Comment peut-il apparemment etre decede d'un effet secondaire de la variole, pourtant eradiquee depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans ? Et pourquoi l'amie de Ryuji a-t-elle disparu apres avoir mentionne une mysterieuse cassette video ? L'epidemie se repand, progresse insidieusement.Le phenomene " Ring " ne fait que commencer : livre, film, video, DVD. Tout le Japon est deja conquis. Peut-etre etes-vous, vous aussi, deja infecte par le virus !.

Cuatro historias rivalizan en suspense y originalidad en este tomo único de Koji Suzuki y Meimu, un dibujante que capta magistralmente la atmósfera de tensión que viven los protagonistas en cada relato. Son historias basadas en el terror psicologico, no habra gore ni detalles escabrosos. La primera historia, la conocida "Dark Water", que inspiro a las peliculas japonesa y americana del mismo nombre, trata de una madre soltera y su hija, que viven en un siniestro edificio de apartamentos. Alli empiezan a recibir la visita de una niña, desaparecida hace tiempo, que consigue llevar a la madre al limite de la locura. El segundo relato, "Island Cruise", narra el misterio de tres marineros, cuyo barco deja de funcionar inesperadamente. La causa parece ser un cadaver, que ha detenido el motor. "Adrift", la tercera historia, intenta encontrar una causa al fenomeno de los barcos fantasma. Y, por ultimo, "Forest Beneath the Waves", una inquietante historia sobre un hombre que tiene un accidente y se encuentra solo y sin posibilidad de pedir ayuda a varios metros bajo tierra. Debera superar sus miedos y adentrarse en lo desconocido.

«La novela, que ha revolucionado el género de terror en Japón, donde ha vendido más de tres millones de ejemplares, utiliza con sabiduría la leyenda urbana, las historias de fantasmas, el uso de las

Together for the first time, in ebook form, the stunning, cutting-edge thrillers with a chilling supernatural twist from the Japanese master of suspense. THE RING is the famous novel that spawned the big-budget blockbuster US horror movie of the same name. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspapers weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesnt take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a portentous message at the end: those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa soon finds himself in a race against time he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.

Stunning Japanese novel with a chilling twist the follow-up to Ring and Spiral. Kaorus 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.

Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the seathat have become the stuff of parodybecome real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a cataclysm extending beyond mankinds understanding of horror as it had previously been known. The world is falling apart because things are out of joint at the quantum level, about which of course theres never been any guarantee that everything has to remain stable.Koji Suzuki returns to the genre hes most famous for after many years of "not wanting to write any more horror." As expected from Suzuki, the chills are of a more cerebral, psychological sort, arguably more unsettling and scary than the slice-and-dice gore fests that horror has become known in the U.S. Never content to simply do "Suzuki"as it werebut rather push the envelope on what horror is in general and for which readers have come to know him, Edge borders on being cutting-edge science fiction. The author himself terms this novel, which he has worked on for some years, a work of "quantum horror."

Death and the Flower is a collection of six short stories centered on the themes of family and peril. The title is derived from a Keith Jarrett album of the same name.

IS HOPE ITSELF THE ONLY ANSWER?The renowned author of the Ring novels unravels a story of lovers wrestling with the darkness within themselvesbe it selfishness, lust, or despairin a deeply introspective romantic mystery that will tug at your mind as well as your heart.A seemingly amnesiac woman sits mutely before her psychiatrist. Unable, or perhaps unwilling, to speak, the only time she shows any hint of emotion is when she hums a songand the song becomes the first clue.Pregnant but abandoned by her lover, who boarded a tuna boat to brave turbulent waters far from home, shed waded into the pitch-black waves one evening to drown herself...because when you feel like youre stranded at sea all by yourself in the dead of the night, those waves call for you, lulling you to sink into the silence beneath.What we go on to discover is a cursed fate, a ruthless reality, and the dark humor of a world ruled by the indifferent forces of chance. They say you never know what the future holds, but what if youre told that you only have precisely a fifty-fifty chance of attaining happiness?

Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist the follow-up to Ring. Pathologist Ando is at a low point in his life. His small sons death from drowning has resulted in the break-up of his marriage and he is suffering from traumatic recurrent nightmares. Work is his only escape, and his depressing world of loneliness and regret is shaken up when an old rival from medical school, Ryuji Takayama, turns up on his slab ready to be dissected. Through Ryujis bizarre demise Ando learns of a series of mysterious deaths that seem to have been caused by a sinister virus. From beyond the grave Ryuji appears to be leading Ando towards a suspicious videotape could this hold the answer to the riddle of the strange deaths? Or is it merely the first clue? When Ando meets Mai, an attractive former student of Ryujis, his desire to solve the puzzle transcends curiosity and becomes a matter of life or death. Spiral is the stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Ring, and can also be read as a standalone.

Twenty-one years after the legendary bestseller Ring, which spawned blockbuster films on both sides of the Pacific, and thirteen years after Birthday, the seeming last word on iconic villain Sadako and her containment, internationally acclaimed master of horror and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Koji Suzuki makes his much-awaited return to the famed trilogys mind-blowing story world with a new novel, S.Takanori Ando, son of Spiral protagonist Mitsuo, works at a small CGI production company and hopes to become a filmmaker one day despite coming from a family of doctors. When hes tasked by his boss to examine a putatively live-streamed video of a suicide thats been floating around the internet, the aspiring director takes on more than he bargained for. His lover Akane, an orphan who grew up at a foster-care facility and is now a rookie high-school teacher, ends up watching the clip. She is pregnant, and she istriggered.Sinking hooks into our unconscious from its very first pages with its creepy imagery, and rewarding curious fans of the series with clever self-references, here is a fitting sequel to a tale renowned for its ongoing mutations.

A selection of deliciously spooky short stories from the Japanese master of suspense, the acclaimed author of RING. The film DARK WATER is based on the first story in the collection. Suzuki demonstrates the power of his psychological insight into the mechanics of fear in this highly atmospheric collection of stories unified by the theme of water. Following her divorce, Yoshimi Matsubara lives with her five-year-old daughter Ikuko in a depressing and damp apartment block on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay. But when a childs red bag keeps turning up in unexpected places, Yoshinos sanity seems to be threatened, and she soon begins to fear that her daughters life is at risk. Kensuke Suehiro jumps at the chance to visit a restricted island in Tokyo Bay, about which he once heard a rather strange story. But when he arrives, he finds far more than he bargained for. Fisherman Hiroyuki is embittered and unhappy in his marriage. But getting rid of his wife turns out to be anything but easy, especially when his own boat seems to be against him. Family man Sugiyama finds himself trapped in an underwater cave. Can he find a way to communicate with his beloved son one last time? Just four examples from this beautifully crafted collection of stories filled with suspense, tension and drama. A perfect introduction to one of Japans top literary stars.

Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist. The novel that inspired the cult Japanese movie and the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspapers weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesnt take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.