Locus Magazine – “So visceral and so right. 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 may not be as big as some, Stephen King’s say, but there are joys to be found in smaller congregations. I’ve only recently joined the church of Koja. Eppure per qualcuna tutto questo non basta. Ale e Franz, Di: Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an audiobook. Publishers Weekly – “This powerful first novel is as thought-provoking as it is horrifying.” THE CIPHER I don’t even know what to say. 412, Kathe Koja won the Locus Award for Best First Novel as well as the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Horror Novel from the Horror Writers of America. 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 abyss… and whatever lies beyond.” I practically began my blog, Too Much Horror Fiction, so I could write seriously about it. Buddha Boy Kathe Koja Author Spencer Murphy Narrator (2005) Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears Fairy Tale Anthology (Series) Neil Gaiman Contributor Tanith Lee. I haven’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. 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. 
After years of reading mainstream Eighties horror paperbacks about normal people’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 Koja’s obsessive and impressionistic prose and ruthlessly dire worldview before. The Cipher and Buddha Boy, comes Velocities, Kathe Kojas second electrifying collection.
Will Errickson, Too Much Horror Fiction – “When I first read THE CIPHER in 1991, I hardly knew what to make of it. 
Daniel Kraus, NYT-bestselling author – “Audacious, acerbic, grotesque, ravishing, stifling, sensual, iconic – there will never be another novel like this one. James, Shirley Jackson, Poe, and Stephen King, horror isn’t the same, in all its current height and depth, without it. I’m going to work very hard not to spoil this incredible work of body horror because I think everyone who can stomach it should read it. Written by a sphinx, a gift, the rarest of talents. Josh Malerman, NYT-best-selling author of Bird Box and Malorie – “The Cipher is a stone-cold landmark of the genre.
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