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Gemma Files

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in London, England

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http://musicatmidnight-gfiles.blogspot.com

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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 3.56 avg rating — 3,338 ratings — published 2015 — 15 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 — 839 ratings — published 2010 — 16 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) 4.03 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	A Rope of Thorns (Hexslinger, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2011 — 16 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) 4.11 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2012 — 8 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 3.81 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	We Will All Go Down Together 3.81 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The Worm In Every Heart 3.79 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2004 — 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
	Esto no es para vosotros y otras historias by Gemma Files (Goodreads Author), Pilar Ramírez Tello (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Rafael Martín Coronel (Illustraror) 4.09 avg rating — 136 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
	Spectral Evidence 3.81 avg rating — 135 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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“I’m pretty sure Mom and Dad didn’t see me coming, either: the kid with the black moods, the kid whose mind was always elsewhere, flinching from real life as from a bruise. Who wanted to lay a fiction-filter on top of everything and pretend it was something else just to keep the sheer disappointment of it all bearable: this limited, empirical experience of ours, trapped inside a decaying shell of meat, mainly able to perceive that nothing lasts, even in our most pleasurable moments.”
― Gemma Files, Experimental Film

tags: decay, mortality

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“The primal sin of those like myself, mes amis, is that because we were once people who acted like beasts, we are forever cursed to be beasts who know they were once men. (“In The Poor Girl Taken By Surprise”)”
― Gemma Files, The Worm In Every Heart

tags: beast, werewolf

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“In its purest form, done right, watching an experimental film is the closest you can come to dreaming another person’s dreams. Which is why to watch one is, essentially, to invite another person into your head, hoping you emerge haunted.”
― Gemma Files, Experimental Film

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