Thanks to Steve of Reading by Pub Light for bringing this to my attention. I am a big fan of Kôji Suzuki and his novels Ring, Spiral, and Loop as well as his collection Dark Water. I would love to get my hands on a copy of Drop (though I’d probably have to wait for it to be translated from Japanese to English—oh well).
From comcast.net NEWSTOKYO — In a country where ghosts are traditionally believed to hide in the loo, a Japanese company is advertising a new literary experience—a horror story printed on toilet paper.
Each roll carries several copies of a new nine-chapter novella written by Kôji Suzuki, the Japanese author of the horror story Ring, which has been made into movies in both Japan and Hollywood.
Drop, set in a public restroom, takes up about three feet (90 centimeters) of a roll and can be read in just a few minutes, according to the manufacturer, Hayashi Paper.
The company promotes the toilet paper, which will sell for 210 yen ($2.20) a roll, as “a horror experience in the toilet.”
Toilets in Japan were traditionally tucked away in a dark corner of the house due to religious beliefs. Parents would tease children that a hairy hand might pull them down into the dark pool below.
Me again: just how awful is that last sentence in the last paragraph! How horrible! I mean, really!
2 comments:
Thats different. I'd definitely read it but not in the loo! In Malaysia our beliefs are almost similar to that of the Japanese... :)
You don't need a horror story to experience horror once you enter a Malaysian toilet :-)
(actually, not just Malaysian but any Asian, except Japanese maybe)
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