![]() ![]() Publisher's promotional material laid in. Its a punk existentialist horror novel, and one thats part unfolding nightmare and part satire and critique of the art world. 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. Koja's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series. One teeming with rain-soaked nights, beer. She began writing when very young, but only became serious about it after attending a Clarion workshop. The Cipher is the debut novel that announced author Kathe Koja to the world. "Horror novel of a would-be poet and his experience with a black hole in his apartment building that leads to another dimension." - Locus. Koja was born in Detroit, Michigan, the second of two sisters. ![]() Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. ![]()
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