Lucky fan Brittany Moran
Vertical’s promotional posse made a horrific appearance in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 13-14 . . . but in a good way. Marketing Manager Stephen Vrattos visited the Rock & Shock convention to scare up some fans with free hardcover editions of Japanese horrormeister Koji Suzuki’s Dark Water with an exclusive Vertical J-Horror bookmark included in each copy. Four lucky fans also won autographed copies of Suzuki’s Spiral. Though the air was laced with suspense, and though he was in the company of horror movie luminaries, Stephen was never more terrified than when he saw the looks on people’s faces after telling them he had run out of books.
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.