Yes, it’s everyone’s favorite onryō, Sadako! My current project is a chapter for the book Recurrent Manifestations of Horror in Popular Media and Culture: Monstrous Mediality, forthcoming from Routledge and edited by Gwyneth Peaty, Ashleigh Prosser, and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Here’s the abstract for my chapter, “’Spread It Like Sickness’: Viral Reproduction in The Ring Universe”:

Ring began as a 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki and has since expanded to four more novels, a short story collection;...