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Gemma Files

Canada (b.1968)

Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.

Awards: Stoker (2023), Jackson (2016) see all

Genres: Horror

Series

Hexslinger
   1. A Book of Tongues (2010)
   2. A Rope of Thorns (2011)
   3. A Tree of Bones (2012)

Novels

We Will All Go Down Together (2014)
Experimental Film (2015)

Collections

   Kissing Carrion (2003)
   The Worm In Every Heart (2006)
   Spectral Evidence (2018)
   Haunted are These Houses (2018) (with others)
   Drawn Up from Deep Places (2018)
   In that Endlessness, Our End (2021)
   Dark is Better (2023)
   Blood from the Air (2023)

Series contributed to

Conversation Pieces
64. Invocabulary (2018)

Books containing stories by Gemma Files

Exploring Dark Short Fiction 7 (2025)
A Primer to Gemma Files
(Exploring Dark Short Fiction, book 7)
edited by
Eric J Guignard

Enter Boogeyman (2024)
edited by
Alessandro Manzetti

Playlist of the Damned (2024)
edited by
Willow Dawn Becker

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Awards

	2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection : Blood from the Air
	2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection : In that Endlessness, Our End
	2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel : Experimental Film

Award nominations

	2019 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee) : Drawn Up from Deep Places
	2018 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Spectral Evidence
	2015 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : A Wish from a Bone
	2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Jacaranda Smile
	2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : each thing i show you is a piece of my death
	2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel (nominee) : A Book of Tongues

Gemma Files recommends

A Mask of Flies (2024)
Matthew Lyons
"[A] ruthless display of skill, carving a raw and screaming path down into the abyss. It's like Lovecraft and Laird Barron by way of Tarantino and Cormac McCarthy."

Boys in the Valley (2023)
Philip Fracassi
"Philip Fracassi amazes and inspires me. Full stop."

Velocities (2020)
Kathe Koja
"Velocities is prime Kathe Koja, with all that that entails: supercharged, dense as hell, oblique, glorious. Every story is a lesson in how to write faster, more intensely, from angles other people never seem to think of: industrial poetry, word mosaics like insect eyes, multifoliate as the insides of flowers, every image a scattered, burrowing seed, spreading narrative like a disease. I’ve loved her work since long before I ever aspired to produce anything like it—in fact, I’m still not sure anyone else is capable of doing what she does, of coming close, let alone hitting the mark. But damn, it’s equally so much fun to admire the result as it is to even vaguely try."

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