Creepy, spooky, and downright scary--that's how we like our October reads here at r/bookclub. Our first horror read this month will be Ring by Koji Suzuki. And the Storygraph description does sound chilling:

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 short novel at just 286 pages in my edition, so we will read it over three weeks. Discussions will be on Tuesdays as follows:

• October 2: Part One: Autumn & Part Two: Highlands.
• October 9: Chapters 1 through 8 of Part Three: Gusts.
• October 16: Chapter 9 of Part Three: Gusts through the end.
• October 23: Book vs. Movie discussion

Do you have the nerve to join us?