CONTENT WARNING, TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT, RAPE (When we begin discussing the plot of the book and when we talk about changes to the story with the 1998 adaptation)

"Seven days..."

Americans and other English-speaking listeners might be fairly familiar with Gore Verbinsky's 2002 adaptation of the Koji Suzuki story Ring in his film The Ring, but how many of you knew that the story started life as a novel? And if maybe you're of the select few English-speakers that have read the original book from 1991, how many of you are also familiar with the very strongly cultural Japanese ghost stories that influenced it? We talk about all of this and much much more in this extra-long discussion about the first set of stories and adaptations set in the universe of Ring. Enjoy!