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Gemma Files

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Born

in London, England

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http://musicatmidnight-gfiles.blogspot.com

Genre

Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry

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Tanith Lee, Martin Scorsese, Marjorie Bowen, John Connolly, Jeff Long, ...more

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February 2010

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Previously best-known as a film critic for Toronto's eye Weekly, teacher and screenwriter, Gemma Files first broke onto the international horror scene when her story "The Emperor's Old Bones" won the 1999 International Horror Guild award for Best Short Fiction. She is the author of two collections of short work (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart) and two chapbooks of poetry (Bent Under Night and Dust Radio). Her Hexslinger Series trilogy is now complete: A Book of Tongues, A Rope of Thorns and A Tree of Bones, all available from ChiZine Publications. ...more

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Publication Day!

Finally some new stuff. My first collection from Trepidatio Publishing/JournalStone, Spectral Evidence, is out today. Here's the ordering link (http://journalstone.com/slider/spectr...), and here's the gorgeous cover:

Would you believe that was crowd-sourced? Well, it was! Daaaamn, there are some clever people out there.;)

At any rate: With new books come new interviews and Read more of this blog post »

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	Experimental Film 3.53 avg rating — 3,830 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Book of Tongues (Hexslinger, #1) 3.47 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files (Goodreads Author), Jesse Peper (Contributor), Jon Padgett (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rope of Thorns (Hexslinger, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files (Goodreads Author), Caitlín R. Kiernan (Introduction), Michael Rowe (Afterword) 3.76 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Esto no es para vosotros y otras historias by Gemma Files (Goodreads Author), Pilar Ramírez Tello (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Rafael Martín Coronel (Illustraror) 3.97 avg rating — 195 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Worm In Every Heart 3.74 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tree of Bones (Hexslinger, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 188 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Will All Go Down Together 3.80 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spectral Evidence 3.74 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hexslinger (3 books)
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3.67 avg rating — 1,389 ratings

We'll admit it: Of all the types of novelists, it's horror writers we have the most questions for. Like: WHY? And WHAT IS WRONG WITH...

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Short Story of the Month - April 2025

'Geometries of Belonging' by R. B. Lemberg

6 votes, 27.3%

'The Emperor's Old Bones' by Gemma Files

5 votes, 22.7%

'Chokechain' by Andrew Joseph White

5 votes, 22.7%

'Unauthorized Access' by An Owomoyela

4 votes, 18.2%

'The Gentleman of Chaos' by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

2 votes, 9.1%

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