Vertical was back on the road last weekend scaring up excitement at MonsterMania in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Horror-fied fans screamed with delight at the free copies of J-Horror mastermind Koji Suzuki’s Dark Water that marketing manager Stephen Vrattos was handing out, each book containing an exclusive and terrifying Vertical J-Horror bookmark. Stephen also had autographed copies of Ring that fans were eager to take a stab at winning. Stephen’s verdict on the three-day event: “We killed ’em!”
Monster Appearance Wows Fans
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Koji Suzuki comes to North America to unravel Dark Water
Monday, October 18th, 2004
Koji Suzuki, widely thought of as the progenitor of Japanese horror fiction, will be making several appearances throughout New York City and Toronto at the end of October. Don’t miss this truly rare opportunity to listen to and speak with Suzuki, who comes to discuss the release of his Dark Water, a collection of short stories that share the sea as a theme.
Suzuki’s schedule of appearances is as follows:
October 24 (Sun), IFOA, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.
October 25 (Mon), same.
October 26 (Tue), Borders Books & Music, 32nd St. and 2nd Ave. New York City 7pm.
October 27 (Wed), Barnes & Noble, 22nd St. and 6th Ave. New York City 7pm. Media-open!
Vertical places all medals for the Foreword Book Awards!
Friday, June 11th, 2004Ring paperback in April; sequel Spiral to debut in May.
Friday, March 5th, 2004
Suzuki’s Ring trilogy spawned a horror phenomenon at the box-offices that continues with the slated production for Ring 2, starring Naomi Watts. Keep up with the original sequel to Ring and get Spiral in May, because you don’t know what the Ring is yet. Vertical is also proud to announce that we will be publishing another Suzuki work of horror; a short story collection called Dark Water, due out Oct. 2004, to be released prior to the movie-remake starring Jennifer Connelly.
Vertical to publish RING sequels SPIRAL and LOOP
Tuesday, July 1st, 2003
The critics agree:
“Each event in Ring is slower and quieter than its successor.”
–John Clute, Sci Fi Weekly
“A novel that reads much more like a short story, and moves just as quickly.”
–James Michael White, SF Reader
Koji Suzuki’s brainy thriller, at any rate, is just the beginning. Following on the success of Ring , Vertical is proud to announce that it will be publishing the rest of the highly acclaimed trilogy. Spiral is planned for early 2004.
“Readers will want to read the next book in this series with a palpable addictive twinge. The good news is that translations of both sequels are in the works, and the following two are likely to make it here before any of the movies do. Readers can then enjoy the additional pleasure of knowing how much better the book is before they see the movie rather than after.”
– Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column
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