Inaugurating Dell's new Abyss Books series, this powerful first novel is as thought-provoking as it is horrifying. Koja has created credible characters who are desperate for both entertainment and salvation. THE CIPHER can be read as a culmination of the two best known types of horror fiction to emerge from the 1980s, a fusion of dark fantasys introspection and splatterpunks nihilism.' - Stefan Dziemianowicz in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Literature 1 (1991), pp. For Nicholas himself, the hole is a phenomenon that forces him to face his miserable, aimless life. Mesmerized by the Funhole, she claims that Nicholas is the only one who can make things happen around it. To Nakota the hole means change, because whatever is dropped into the Funhole emerges transformed- if it ever emerges. The videotape they retrieve is spellbinding, but there's a catch: what Nicholas sees is different from everyone else's vision. Next, they lower a camcorder into the hole to record the action within. For me it had a very unsatisfying ending. (#158763).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. The main problem with The Cipher as a novel is that the plot is not particularly captivating it is mainly the atmosphere, the character study of the two mains and the weirdness of it all that moves the story along.
Publisher's promotional material laid in. Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel 1991 and winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Horror Novel 1991.
"Kathe Koja’s THE CIPHER marks the debut of an important new talent, and is that rare horror novel that causes us to rethink the parameters of horror as a literary perspective … THE CIPHER can be read as a culmination of the two best known types of horror fiction to emerge from the 1980s, a fusion of dark fantasy’s introspection and splatterpunk’s nihilism." - Stefan Dziemianowicz in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Literature #1 (1991), pp. "Horror novel of a would-be poet and his experience with a black hole in his apartment building that leads to another dimension." - Locus. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition.
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