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The book slipcase represents a distorted landscape of Japan, while the interior, when revealed shows the true nature of the "videotape" within the story: a virus as ravaging as smallpox. the package is meant to emulate a VHS slipcase cover.
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Smallpox/ Videotape
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Tokyo Bay/ Japan/ Video Distortion
Interior Illustrations
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But was that really all there was to is? An evil chill seemed to rise up around her shoulders, spread to her back, and began to slither down her spine...
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Darkness. She's terribly afraid of the dark...
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...he had high hopes that the key to unlock the riddle of four people's deaths was hidden on this tape...
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...the rumblings of the earth increased until the whole screen seemed about to be engulfed in molten rock...
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A pair of dice, tumbling...what did it mean?
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The old expressionless women made her statement...
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The face of a newborn baby filled the screen. From somewhere he could here a baby's first cry. This time, too, he was sure it didn't come from the television speakers...
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Each one displayed hatred and animosity; he couldn't see any distinguishing features other than that. The myriad of faces...
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...not a play within a play, but a TV within a TV...
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...he had no idea why he should hate this man...
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...darkness gradually encroaching in a ring on the center...
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...I've been wanting to meet you...
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...he stared at his face in the mirror. Somebody else was reflected in the mirror. The cheeks were yellowish, dried and cracked, and his hair was falling out...