Dick Award.Īnd the glorious cover art by Keith Rosson, author of Smoke City and The Mercy of the Tide. This is the story of Nakota and Nicholas who one day found a black hole, named it the funhole, and changed their lives forever. It is the winner of the Bram Stoker Award, Locus Award, and a finalist for the Philip K. I haven’t stopped thinking about THE CIPHER in the 30 years since, and my numerous reads of it always yield.
Kathe Koja’s classic novel of fear, obsession, creation, and destruction, The Cipher, which reopens the door on the Funhole with this brand new and long-awaited print edition. 2021 marks the 30th birthday of Kathe Koja’s horror novel The Cipher.My edition has an author’s note in which Koja explains that the original title was The Funhole, which would have made more sense.You see, the Funhole is literally a hole, a black circular space found in the storage room of an apartment building where Nicholas lives. 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. For a long time available only as an eBook, Meerkat Press and Ink Heist are pleased to announce that the Funhole is coming back in all its dark glory and we have a fucking gorgeous cover to share with you today. It would be safe to say that Kathe Koja is one of the best authors working in horror or any other speculative genre right now, and it would be just as safe a bet that her previously out of print novel, The Cipher, is the most sought after volume in her lexicon of work.
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