takes you into the lives of the dark dreamers that crawl on the underbelly of art and culture. Seldom has language been so visceral and so right.' - Locus ' is a book that makes you sit up, pay attention, and jettison your moldy preconceptions about the genre. [An} imaginative debut.' - Fangoria 'Not so much about the vast and wonderful strangeness of the universe as it is about the horrific and glorious potential of the human spirit.' - Short Form From Publishers Weekly: Down-and-out Nicholas and his friend Nakota one day discover a black hole in the floor of an abandoned storage room in his apartment building, which they quickly christen the 'Funhole.' The two set out to see what happens when they drop various items into the hole, whetting its appetite with insects, a mouse and a human hand, which all come back violently rearranged. Locus Magazine – “So visceral and so right.Next, they lower a camcorder into the hole to record the action within.

Publishers Weekly – “This powerful first novel is as thought-provoking as it is horrifying.”.

Over those years its reputation has only grown, and today I am delighted to see that THE CIPHER is once again in the hands-pun fully, deeply intended-of a new generation of horror fans eager, as ever, to peer into the abyss… and whatever lies beyond.” I practically began my blog, Too Much Horror Fiction, so I could write seriously about it. I haven’t stopped thinking about THE CIPHER in the 30 years since, and my numerous reads of it always yield fresh new horrors from its reflective deeps.

Koja’s fearless depiction of bickering 20-something art failures stumbling upon an actual nothing and then watching with detached fascination as their squalid lives disintegrate around it was the darkest kind of revelation for me. After years of reading mainstream Eighties horror paperbacks about normal people’s lives upended by the usual supernatural monstrosities, I was primed and ready for this new voice. But I knew one thing for sure: horror fiction had never seen anything like Kathe Koja’s obsessive and impressionistic prose and ruthlessly dire worldview before.

Will Errickson, Too Much Horror Fiction – “When I first read THE CIPHER in 1991, I hardly knew what to make of it.Daniel Kraus, NYT-bestselling author – “Audacious, acerbic, grotesque, ravishing, stifling, sensual, iconic – there will never be another novel like this one.

James, Shirley Jackson, Poe, and Stephen King, horror isn’t the same, in all its current height and depth, without it. Written by a sphinx, a gift, the rarest of talents.

Josh Malerman, NYT-best-selling author of Bird Box and Malorie – “The Cipher is a stone-cold landmark of the genre.

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