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. I should probably just read something else of hers but at this point this seems so crazy that finding it seems like a challenge to me.: A Dell Book. It's supposedly one of her best so it wouldn't be out of print while the others are widely available right?Ģnd does anyone know where I can find it? A hard copy of the book is preferred but at this point I'd even go with an audiobook.
It's just not my cup of tea.ġst off what is even going on here? I can find almost any other of her works through normal channels but not The Cipher. So I figure I'll buy it, I checked amazon and other online retailers as well as all my local bookstores and not a single hard copy of the book available for less than $150!! Granted ebooks are available but I've never been able to focus on a screen that long. According to some, the imprint that carried Koja’s debut was ordered to break the rules and look further afield in an attempt to rebuild the genre’s credibility in a bid to prevent the genre from being washed away in the torrent of shit that was the horror paperback. So I checked around at my library and not a single library in the Chicagoland area has a copy. Kathe Koja’s The Cipher was first published around the time when the market for horror novels was beginning to collapse. I read a short story of hers and wanted to read more, I looked at recommendations and it seemed like one of her early works, The Cipher, was considered one of her best.
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