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Followers of the Funhole start to occupy the apartment, and though Nicholas wants to avoid the crowds and curl up alone, it seems the Funhole only exists when he’s around. The video that comes up is horrifying, confusing, and completely addicting. Nicholas works at a video store and has to secret out a hand-held camcorder (they used to loan these!) to keep Nakota happy.

Locus Magazine – “So visceral and so right.Then she gets an idea: what if they put a camera down the Funhole? The novel was published in 1991, so getting a camera isn’t as easy as sacrificing your cell phone.

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.