Nicholas is one of those people who is basically just existing – there’s nothing particularly interesting or likeable about him. I love that there is almost nobody here that you want to root for. I love inescapable, indescribable, indifferent horror, and this one is definitely all of that. But I couldn’t/didn’t want to put it down. Locus Award for Best First Novel (1992).Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel (1991).Because it has already seared his flesh, infected his soul, and started him on a journey of obsession – through its soothing, blank darkness into the blinding core of terror… Awards: Now from down the hall, the black hole calls out to Nicholas every day and every night. Then Nakota began her experiments: First, she put an insect into the hole. She had to make love to Nicholas beside it, and stare into its secretive, promising depths. She had to see the dark hole in the storage room down the hall. It began with Nakota and her crooked grin. Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand – weeping not blood, but a plasma of tears… So although I read the ARC, I did a bookstagram photo of the physical copy. Inaugurating Dell's new Abyss Books series, this powerful first novel is as thought-provoking as it is horrifying.I originally got an E-ARC of The Cipher by Kathe Koja from Net Galley (although I also received a physical copy in a Night Worms package shortly after requesting. Koja has created credible characters who are desperate for both entertainment and salvation. For Nicholas himself, the hole is a phenomenon that forces him to face his miserable, aimless life. Mesmerized by the Funhole, she claims that Nicholas is the only one who can make things happen around it. To Nakota the hole means change, because whatever is dropped into the Funhole emerges transformed- if it ever emerges. The videotape they retrieve is spellbinding, but there's a catch: what Nicholas sees is different from everyone else's vision. Next, they lower a camcorder into the hole to record the action within.
Publisher's Weekly Down-and-out Nicholas and his friend Nakota one day discover a black hole in the floor of an abandoned storage room in his apartment building, which they quickly christen the ''Funhole.'' The two set out to see what happens when they drop various items into the hole, whetting its appetite with insects, a mouse and a human hand, which all come back violently rearranged.
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