Publishers Weekly вЂ“ вЂњThis powerful first novel is as thought-provoking as it is horrifying.вЂќ.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 abyssвЂ¦ and whatever lies beyond.вЂќ I practically began my blog, Too Much Horror Fiction, so I could write seriously about it.

I havenвЂ™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. KojaвЂ™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 peopleвЂ™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 KojaвЂ™s obsessive and impressionistic prose and ruthlessly dire worldview before. Will Errickson, Too Much Horror Fiction вЂ“ вЂњWhen I first read THE CIPHER in 1991, I hardly knew what to make of it. This is the story of Nakota and Nicholas who one day found a black hole, named it the funhole, and changed their lives forever.Having been written in the 90s, it already has the natural grunge element, but the added underground art scene really. These days she writes only young-adult fiction, but close to 20 years ago she was, as far as I was concerned at the time, the absolute cutting edge of horror. It will put you in a dark place in the past, back to a time where you had to rewind videotapes. The Cipher by Kathe Koja (1991): Your Place in Oblivion is Secure I still don't think there's been anything in horror quite like Kathe Koja 's debut novel, The Cipher (Feb 1991, Dell/Abyss). Daniel Kraus, NYT-bestselling authorВ вЂ“ вЂњAudacious, acerbic, grotesque, ravishing, stifling, sensual, iconic вЂ“ there will never be another novel like this one. The Cipher by Kathe Koja My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Cipher sucks you in like the Funhole its story is set around, and when you resurface, youвЂ™re definitely not the same.James, Shirley Jackson, Poe, and Stephen King, horror isnвЂ™t the same, in all its current height and depth, without it. The Cipher by Kathe Koja (1991): Your Place in Oblivion is Secure I still dont think theres been anything in horror quite like Kathe Koja s debut novel, The Cipher (Feb 1991, Dell/Abyss). Written by a sphinx, a gift, the rarest of talents. Josh Malerman, NYT-best-selling author of Bird Box and MalorieВ вЂ“ вЂњThe Cipher is a stone-cold landmark of the genre.

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