Crawling back out of your television set, Samara returns in an all-new Ring feature film. This issue of HorrorHound takes a look back at the history of the Ring franchise, from its Japanese roots as a book, to television series, to film series, a successful US remake, to a genre-defining cinema icon that spawned countless copycats and rip-offs. While Ring may be one of Japan's crowning horror achievements, this issue of HorrorHound also takes a stroll across the globe to determine impactful horrors worldwide, with articles on French, Italian, Australian, Chinese, and Indian genre cinema.