Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook.Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the hall. But then the experiments begin. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota...

Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain.Kathe Koja’s books include The Mercury Waltz, Under the Poppy, The Cipher and Skin; her young adult novels include Buddha Boy, Talk and Kissing the Bee. Her work has been honored by the ALA, the ASPCA and with the Bram Stoker Award. Her books have been publishe...

The world's not safe anymore. In a near-future settlement on the ragged edge of nowhere, Ailey Esper— archer, loner, drifter— works to gather the true story of a doomed animal activist. But a dark yearly rite, called Fê te, is about to happen again, this time funded by a stranger whose plans include Ailey. When a brutal kidnapping rocks the settlement, Ailey must turn to the people around her— a badass herbalist, a historian with a power saw, and a pure-hearted goatkeeper— to help her ride...

Tess welds metal. Bibi molds flesh. Together, they make art that moves,dances, burns, and bleeds, and the Surgeons of the Demolition become thehottest ticket in town. But Bibi wants more, always more, no matter who getshurt. And Tess needs to burn, no matter what.Thirty years ago, SKIN changed the landscape of dark fiction forever. And now the girls are back in town."A dark and frightening work by a major talent whose prose reads like acollaborat...

In her mesmerizing novel, Kink, Kathe Koja explores the many dazzling facets of obsession - intellectual, emotional, and sexual - created and refracted by the ever-changing dynamics of a three-way relationship between a man and two women. Set in a gritty downtown urban milieu of late-night clubs and a decadent art scene where all past ties seem severed, Kink is at once spellbindingly erotic and determined - in brilliant studies of character, motivation, manipulation, and spiritual unease -...

Enter a world of strange and unsettling beauty with Kathe Koja's electrifying collection of short fiction.In Velocities, award-winning author Kathe Koja plunges readers into thirteen tales that explore the darker aspects of the human condition. From urban landscapes to rural nightmares, these stories delve into themes of art, identity, and transformation with a unique blend of horror and literary prose.Experience mounting tension and dangerous desi...

"We’re pursued by no one, now."Having fled their comfortably dangerous brothel-and-theater known as the Poppy, Rupert and Istvan have traveled far to land in a city of sepia and silver, where they make new allies and settle old grudges. Ancient families clash with municipal thugs outside and inside the doors of the Mercury Theatre: the home Rupert has always longed for, with a stage created for Istvan’s wildest tales.Kathe Koja’s compelling sequel to Under the Poppy continu...

AN ALA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTSThe kids at Edward Rucher High School call Jinsen "Buddha Boy" - he wears oversize tie-dyed dragon t-shirts, shaves his head and always seems to be smiling. Jinsen certainly doesn't help matters when he starts begging for lunch money in the cafeteria. Then Justin is paired with him for a class project. All Justin wants to do is get it over with and go back to hanging out with his friends...until he discovers Jinsen's incredible artistic talent. And ...

Grant, an ambitious photographer, is possessed by a young mental patient's strange drawings and becomes the disturbed young artist's confidant and guardian in a relationship that pushes Grant's own sanity to the edge.Kathe Koja’s books include The Mercury Waltz, Under the Poppy, The Cipher and Skin; her young adult novels include Buddha Boy, Talk and Kissing the Bee. Her work has been honored by the ALA, the ASPCA and with the Bram Stoker Award. Her books have been published in sev...

Enter a world where reality is customizable, and the dance floor is a battleground.Welcome to Dark Factory, a dance club like no other. Three floors pulse with DJ beats, intoxicating drinks, and customizable reality. Ari Regon, the club's enigmatic floor manager, and Max Caspar, a fiercely independent DIY artist, both seek a vision of true reality within its walls.But when a rooftop rave unleashes a fathomless energy, Ari and Max find themselves spiraling t...

Dive back into the reality-bending world of Dark Factory, where the only thing wilder than a night at the club is the morning after.Sergey Kendricks, a documentary filmmaker, follows Ari Regon and Felix the DJ through the chaotic world of stardom. Max Caspar delves deeper into the unstable gaming landscape of Birds of Paradise. Fans, acolytes, haters, and schemers pursue and idolize them, all searching for the end of the world.Immerse yourself in a cyberpun...

"Koja can pack a lot Dickensian humor into a sentence."—The Plain DealerUnder the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and Rupert. Decca is in love with Rupert but he in turn is in love with her brother, Istvan. When Istvan comes back to town, louche puppet troupe in tow, the lines of their age-old desires intersect against a backdrop of approaching war.Hearts are broken when old betrayals and new alliances—not just their own—take shape, as the townsmen seek refuge from the on...