Koji Suzuki, ‘Ring’ author and Japanese horror pioneer, dies at 68

Suzuki published his most recent novel last year and died of an illness, his publisher said.

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Koji Suzuki, the Japanese novelist whose 1991 horror novel “Ring” spawned a global film franchise and helped ignite a Japanese horror boom, died at 68 at Tokyo hospital on May 8.

Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Suzuki debuted in 1990 with the fantasy novel “Rakuen” (“Paradise”) and won that year’s Japan Fant…