One evening, a man suddenly saunters out after watching television and fails to come home. He calls his wife to tell her that he just can't live with her anymore. Left with a baby daughter and at a loss, Miyuki contacts her husband's childhood friend Shirow for help. As the two investigate the missing man's whereabouts, they come to fear that the disappearance involves more than mere caprice.<BR>Published a dozen years after Ring, the contemporary horror classic that won Koji Suzuki worldwide acclaim, Promenade of the Gods is a mystery in which the author's signature use of amateur sleuths comes to the fore and spellbinds anew. Considered his most important novel since the famed Ring trilogy, Promenade shares with it many themes and a character, a guru called Kageyama, mentioned only in passing in Ring. When the occult and the media cross ways, a new light begins to shimmer on the horizon.