Named “One of the genre's most original and innovative voices” (L.A. Review of Books) and “An expert at terrifying prose” (LitReactor), Canadian author Gemma Files has been penning gritty and macabre fiction since 1993, earning industry awards and critical acclaim from sources such as National Public Radio, Publishers Weekly, and The National Post. Files imbues her cross-genre work with layers like dark stratum: heartbreak upon horror, built over the vignettes of life we may find ourselves in, but for one slight turn of reality.
Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to her work, the seventh in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance to discover—or learn more of—the evocative voice of Gemma Files, as beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich.Included within these pages are:
- Six short stories, one written exclusively for this book
- Author interview
- Complete bibliography
- Academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD (former humanities chair and professor of the year, Seton Hill University)
- . . . and more!
Enter this doorway to the vast and fantastic: Get to know Gemma Files.
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• Introduction by Eric J. Guignard
• Fiction Stories by Gemma Files
o In The Poor Girl Taken by Surprise
o Slick Black Bones and Soft Black Stars
o Venio
o Sown From Salt
o Guising
o Yol
• About Gemma Files (A Biography)
• Essay: Why Gemma Files Matters
• In Conversation with Gemma Files
• Stories in Pieces: Found Footage Storytelling, or Writing Epistolary Narratives for the 21st Century: An Essay by Gemma Files
• A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Gemma Files
• Academic Commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD
• Illustrations by Michelle Prebich
Author, Gemma Files
Born in London, England and raised in Toronto, Canada, Gemma Files has been an award-winning horror author since 1999 (when her story “The Emperor’s Old Bones” won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Fiction). She has published five novels (including the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award-winning Experimental Film, from CZP), six collections of short fiction (including the 2021 Bram Stoker Award-winning In That Endlessness, Our End, from Grimscribe Press), and four collections of speculative poetry. Her most recent works are Dark Is Better (Trepidatio, out now) and Blood From The Air (Grimscribe, upcoming).
For more, visit her Wikipedia page at: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Files.
Gemma's bibliography (through March, 2021) is listed here: A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Gemma Files.
