
Gemma Files
Author · 29 books
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.
Series
Books

Echoes
2019

Shakespeare Unleashed
2023

Dark is Better
2023

Coffle
2017

Playlist of the Damned
2023

The Best Horror of the Year - Volume Five
2013

Lost Films
2018

Dark Stars
New Tales of Darkest Horror
2022

A Tree of Bones
2012

Children of Lovecraft
2016

Kissing Carrion
2003

Experimental Film
2015

A Book of Tongues
2010

A Season in Carcosa
2012

Drawn Up from Deep Places
2018

A Rope of Thorns
2011

There is No Death, There are No Dead
2021

Spectral Evidence
2018

We Will All Go Down Together
2014

New Fears 2
More New Horror Stories by Masters of the Macabre
2018

Dead Letters
Episodes of Epistolary Horror
2023

Strangers Among Us
Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
2016

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 100
2020

Mother
Tales of Love and Terror
2022

The Worm in Every Heart
2006

She Walks in Shadows
2015

The Hexslinger Omnibus
2013

In That Endlessness, Our End
2021

She Walks in Shadows
2015