![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are no explanations, no ready ones at least, but there are many interpretations and each of these interpretations may in itself be a cipher. ![]() The Cipher is a cipher, both as a book and as a phenomena within the book. I was twenty years old and fresh from the books of Clive Barker, who had successfully redefined horror a few years before, and I was looking for something new and with the story of Nicholas and Nakota, with the story of the hole and the madness that came with it, I got my wish. The Cipher had a weird step-back cover, a hand cut-out, a face or something like it and an inner cover that spoke of exceptionally dark things. Brite and Kathe Koja names that stayed in my head and followed me around until I went on my weekly excursion through the book shops of my home-town I found nothing from Poppy Brite, which wasn't surprising as she wouldn't have a book out for another year even though Lost Souls had already been touted as a big thing by reviewers but I did find something from Kathe Koja. I was reading an article, I think it may have been in an issue of Fangoria, about a new wave of horror authors and in it I discovered the names Poppy Z. I first became aware of Kathe Koja in the summers months of 1991. ![]()
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