Author · born 1968
Gemma Files
Gemma Files (born 1968) is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Born in London.
Our catalogue lists 2 books by Gemma Files, mostly horror, stage-magic fiction and historical fantasy. They span 2010 to 2011. The most-read is A BOOK OF TONGUES (2010).
Books by Gemma Files
A BOOK OF TONGUES
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A Rope of Thorns
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Awards
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Short Story, Ghost Pressure (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Short Story, Hairwork (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Novelette, A Wish from a Bone (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2011 — Best First Novel, A Book of Tongues (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2010 — Best Novelette, each thing i show you is a piece of my death (nominee)
- 🏆Bram Stoker Awards 2023 — Best Fiction Collection, Blood from the Air (winner)
- 🏆Bram Stoker Awards 2021 — Best Fiction Collection, In That Endlessness, Our End (winner)
- ✦Bram Stoker Awards 2018 — Best Fiction Collection, Spectral Evidence (nominee)
- ✦Bram Stoker Awards 2010 — Best First Novel, A Book of Tongues (nominee)
- 🏆Shirley Jackson Awards 2015 — Novel, Experimental Film (winner)
Biography
Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series *The Hunger.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Files, 7 February 2022