num_pages: 356
description: 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...It began with Nakota and her crooked grin. She had to see the dark hole in the storage room down the hall. She had to make love to Nicholas beside it, and stare into its secretive, promising depths. Then Nakota began her experiments: First, she put an insect into the hole. Then a mouse...Now from down the hall, the black hole calls out to Nicholas every day and every night. And he will go to it. 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...
language: English
title: The Cipher
titlecomplete: The Cipher
genres: Splatterpunk, Science Fiction, Weird Fiction, Novels, Adult, Lovecraftian, Fiction, Horror, Adult Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 5552
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Philip K. Dick Award
publisher: Dell