Gemma Files, Author . ChiZine $16.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-9812978-6-6
A Pinkerton detective infiltrates a Wild West gang led by a spell-casting preacher in this boundary-busting horror–fantasy debut. Agent Ed Morrow is dispatched by a professor of magical research to evaluate the “hexslinging”...
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Gemma Files. ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-926851-14-3
Sacrificed to the bloodthirsty Aztec goddess Ixchel, flamboyantly queer outlaw Chess Pargeter is reborn and filled with a god's dark power in the powerful sequel to 2010's A Book of Tongues. Ixchel takes Chess's ex-lover Rev. Asher Rook as her...
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Gemma Files. ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-926851-57-0
Apocalypse threatens on all sides in the rousing conclusion to Files's remarkable Hexslinger trilogy (after A Rope of Thorns), set in the post-Civil War American southwest. Magically-corrupt detective Allan Pinkerton's army, with its anti-magic...
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Gemma Files. Grimscribe, $20 trade paper (342p) ISBN 978-0-578-75976-0
This electrifying collection of 15 horror shorts from Files (Spectral Evidence) seeks out the hidden pockets of terror in everyday life. In “Bulb,” a woman encounters an eldritch creature in the wiring of her condo, while in “Always after Three” a...
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Gemma Files, Author, Gemma Files, Other Prime Books $17.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-894815-63-5
Kissing Carrion collects 17 tales by one of Canada's most promising new horror writers, Gemma Files. Praise from the not-easily-impressed Caitlin Kiernan, who provides an introduction, should help bring this to the attention of those who care...
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Gemma Files. JournalStone, $17.95 trade paper (242p) ISBN 978-1-947654-23-5
Files (Experimental Film) brings dark fantasy to life in this inclusive collection of 10 tales. The works include a supernatural prologue to the fall of Pompeii (“Villa Locusta”), a hypothetical ending for one of history’s most infamous killers (“Jac
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