ドロップ [Drop]

by Kōji Suzuki, 鈴木光司

『リング』『らせん』の恐怖が再び！　トイレで読むホラー小説

　水気の多い閉ざされた空間は、怖い話の舞台に合う。
　狭い空間に籠った怨念が、水という媒体によって熟成され、伝播されやすくなるからだ。古井戸ほど怪談の舞台にうってつけのものはないのだが、近ごろはめったにこれを見ない。
　古井戸ほどではないにしても、似たような条件を兼ね備えた空間は、いたるところにある。
　そう、トイレだ。

　映画化され、社会現象を起こした『リング』の著者・鈴木光司が贈る、最高に怖いホラー短編小説！
　15点の挿し絵とともに、日本語版・英語版を同時収録。
　本書を読めば、あなたはもう夜中にトイレに行くことは出来ない……。

The horror of "The Ring" "Spiral" is back! You can experience this new horror novel while you are on the toilet!

"An enclosed, damp space sets the stage of horror.
Within the confines of this small space, the condition for rancor develops, matures with water and easily spreads. Traditionally, an old well is the perfect setting for ghost stories. But these days, wells are few and far between.
Though conceivably different from an old water well, we still have an everyday space with similar conditions.
That’s right. It’s a restroom."

The Author, Mr. Kohji Suzuki, has written the scariest short story to ever reach the confines of your bathroom: "Drop". This horror novel follows in the footsteps of Suzuki's "The Ring," which was made into a movie, and became a social phenomenon.
Complete with 15 illustrations, "Drop" can be read in Japanese and English. But beware; if you read this story, you won't want go to the bathroom at night...

Genres: Horror

73 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2012

About the author

Suzuki Kōji (鈴木光司) is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring novels, which has been adapted into a manga series. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood. He is currently on the selection committee for the Japan Fantasy Novel Award.

Reviews

[Cornel Diaconu · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected some more from a Koji Suzuki product, but maybe being so short doesn't permit more: heroine of this story needs to use a public toilet while away from her home; while relieving herself, she observes a smear on the stall wall, which she finds it covers a message to look left (like in a child game) and there another one, to look up, where she seems to observe a face from which some teardrops fall on her toilet paper;
then she observes a toilet paper roll on the corner of the stall walls, which when she drops it down seem to have her own face drawn on it ... and she fsints with her own parfume scent in het nose.
A bit later she walks out the rest room, only to feel she is ignored by every passerby, and ehen returning to the rest room, she rralises she's now a ghost looking down over some woman in a stall, and crying over that woman.
Strange ?
Obviously

[Félix D'Jesús · Rating 4 out of 5]

En español de Koji Suzuki solo están la novela The ring y la colección de relato Dark water, ambas me gustan mucho y las leí bastante rápido y quede con deseo de leer mas de Koji Suzuki (me gusta las películas de J-horror de las cuales Suzuki es sin duda una influencia, aunque la novela es algo diferente a la película Ringu). Por suerte me topé con unos de sus relatos inéditos traducidos en YouTube.

"La gota" es un relato tan corto que cualquier intento de reseñarlo será un spoirle, solo diré que me provocó el mismo escalofrío de los relatos de Dark water y tiene todos los elementos de los otros trabajos de Suzuki: agua/húmeda,oscuridad, espacios pequeños...

Escuchar aquí

[hotsake (André Troesch) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good, but more novelty and scary.

[Rech-B · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Un lugar cerrado y húmedo, es el escenario perfecto para una historia de horror"... Y quien mejor que Suzuki para contar historias de horror en entornos húmedos.

Fácilmente esta historia podría haber sido un relato más en la antología Dark Water, aunque de haber sido así, habría perdido su característica más... ¿Original? Y es qué en su país de origen ésto se imprimió en rollos de papel higiénico... Un movimiento extraño pero sin duda muy interesante e inteligente ya que eso te orilla a leerlo justo dónde el autor te quiere... Eso contribuye a la atmósfera y la cercanía con los hechos del relato, ya que la historia transcurre precisamente en un baño. No quiero imaginar como me habría puesto si hubiera leído ésto estando en un baño, cuando de por si terminé perturbado.
Estoy bastante sorprendido por la calidad de la traducción que le hizo un simple canal de Youtube, la cual es perfecta... Si la comparo las traducciones chapuceras que algunas grandes editoriales hacen a los relatos del autor, el resultado es vergonzoso. Eres un crack Vicho.
La historia no es la gran cosa en términos de originalidad (Eso claro si ignoramos el formato en el que se publicó). De hecho en lo que llevo de la bibliografía del autor ésta es su única historia que conozco hasta el momento en la que no hay explicaciones lógicas ni científicas detrás de los hechos aterradores, lo sobrenatural es 100% místico, lo que lo hace más convencional... Y sin embargo la habilidad y el talento de Suzuki para escribir, hace que de todas formas se sienta como una experiencia completamente envolvente. Me ha quitado el mal sabor de boca que me han dejado algunas otras historias del autor recientemente. Recomiendo mucho este relato, sobre todo a quiénes gustan del terror más sobrenatural y típico.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

"An enclosed, damp space sets the stage of horror.
Within the confines of this small space, the condition for rancor develops, matures with water and easily spreads. Traditionally, an old well is the perfect setting for ghost stories. But these days, wells are few and far between."

–

Not bad for a horror short originally released printed on toilet paper.

It's kind of funny that Suzuki begins the story by talking about water, a rotting curse, and a well, considering he wrote the infamous "Ring" novels. But there are no wells here. This story is set in a toilet stall and it's written in a way as if the protagonist was the reader.
It's a neat little thing but doesn't really become something very memorable aside from the toilet paper gimmick. It's a decent short with a fairly good idea but probably one of his weaker texts.

I also had to read an unofficial English translation, so I cannot really comment on his use of words here.

[H0rr0rbl0b · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it, at first I wasn’t sure what to make out of this book, it almost reads like a dm of some ttrpg dnd game. it puts you in a first person perspective and soon your in a bathroom looking at smears on a wall and soon to a open roof bathroom with a tiny roll of paper staring down on you with a face on it. It all comes around full circle as you make your way out of the bathroom towards the train station where you find a missing person portrait and then you know….. That this is a great short story! Give it a read it’s a quick one

[Dreaming Though Awake · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's quite good. Made me real nervous but has a lot of unresolved points like...



Spoilers :

Would have liked to know how the cycle started ? How it keeps going on as if predetermined ? What happened to the bodies ? What happened during the interim time , etc.

[Shed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whaaaaaat.

[Noah McBride · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good read, and neat enough idea to have a horror story set in toilets to be written toilet paper

[on storygraph (macclown) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this after reading the first book in the Ring series and while it's well written, as to be expected of Suzuki, I ... really don't know what there is to say about the story. Kind of just weird, but worth the quick read anyway!