Gemma Files

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2003
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Hexslinger

1 - A Book of Tongues (May-2010)
2 - A Rope of Thorns (Jun-2011)
3 - A Tree of Bones (Jun-2012)
3.5 - Like a Bowl of Fire (Mar-2014)
3.6 - In Scarlet Town (Mar-2014)
3.7 - Hexmas (Mar-2014)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Kissing Carrion

    The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, “one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today” (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts).   These seventeen tales take readers ...

  • The Worm In Every Heart

    The second collection from the author of Kissing Carrion, whose stories “overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror” (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts).   As two-time Bram Stoker Award winne...

  • A Book of Tongues

    Hexslinger - 1

  • A Rope of Thorns

    Hexslinger - 2

  • A Tree of Bones

    Hexslinger - 3

  • Hexmas

    Hexslinger - 3.7

    1875: Seven years after helping hexslinger Chess Pargeter save the world, spiritualist Yancey Colder Kloves and former Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow are finally expecting a baby. But a powerful and deranged new neighbour threatens both the security of th...

  • In Scarlet Town

    Hexslinger - 3.6

    1874: It's been six years since the roaming magical state of Hexicas -- formerly Hex City, first and only community where hexes can finally live in some sort of cooperative harmony -- declared its independence. Now someone's killed a member of the...

  • Like a Bowl of Fire

    Hexslinger - 3.5

    1869: Two years after playing a literally world-saving part in the events of A Tree of Bones, hexslinger Chess Pargeter roams the weird West with his new partner (and lover) Charlie Alarid, seeking out hexation-bred oddities to banish in the name ...

  • The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year Five



  • We Will All Go Down Together

    “A vivid, haunting mix of horror and fantasy woven together through a complex fugue of short stories” from the award-winning author of Kissing Carrion (Entertainment Weekly).   One of Canada’s most acclaimed horror writers, Gemma Files pre...

  • Ceaseless West

    Eighteen Weird Western short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three-time Hugo Award and four-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all med...

  • Experimental Film

    The award-winning author of the Hexslinger Series “explores the world of film and horror in a way that will leave you reeling” (Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy).   Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise ...

  • Spectral Evidence

    For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently served up tale after tale celebrating monstrosity in all its forms: the imperfect, the broken, the beautifully alien and the sadly familiar. Her charact...

  • Invocabulary

    Myths and fairytales, monsters and magic, dead gods and forgotten goddesses—these are the subjects that most often inspire Gemma Files's third collection of speculative poetry. By running folk horror symbolism through the filter of contemporar...

  • Drawn Up From Deep Places

    IF YOU GO DOWN DEEP ENOUGH, YOU FIND ALL SORTS OF THINGS . . . . In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her readers on journeys out beyond safe borders -- from the trackless depths of the sea, to t...

  • Tales from The Lake Vol.5

    The Legend Continues…

    In the spirit of popular Dark Fiction and Horror anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and the best of Stephen King’s short fiction, come...

  • Tales from the Lake: Volume 5

    The Legend Continues…In the spirit of popular Dark Fiction and Horror anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and the best of Stephen King's short fiction, ...

  • In that Endlessness, Our End

    Winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection COME CLOSER, FRIEND. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY. Heard the one about the Airbnb that eats your dreams or the iron-crowned king who preys on his...

  • Dark is Better

    WHAT WE FEAR IN THE DARK CAN BE TERRIBLE.WHAT WE SEE IN THE LIGHT CAN BE WORSE.... This world is full of places that seem empty, but hide awful secrets. A cinematic ghost escapes from an experimental art project, infiltrating first the internet, the...



  • Blood from the Air

    Angels and insects, holes in the known world's fabric and what comes out of them, the love of death and the death of love. In award-winning horror author Gemma Files's seventh collection of short fiction, the numinous and the awful tango together thr...

Award-Winning Books by Gemma Files

In that Endlessness, Our End
2021 Bram Stoker Award -- Fiction Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gemma Files has published 20 books.

Gemma Files does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blood from the Air, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Gemma Files, Kissing Carrion, was published in July 2003.

Yes. Gemma Files has 1 series.
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