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.
Her first novel, A Book of Tongues, won the 2010 Black Quill Award for "Best Small Press Chill" from Dark Scribe Magazine; it was followed by the sequels A Rope of Thorns (2011) and A Tree of Bones (2012), together comprising her The Hexslinger series. A Rope of Thorns was considered a "powerful sequel" to A Book of Tongues by Publishers Weekly.[3]
Her book We Will All Go Down Together (about a coven of witches and changelings) was given a favorable review by NPR.[4]
Her novel Experimental Film (2015) won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Speculative Fiction (Novel) in 2016.
Files married science fiction and fantasy author Stephen J. Barringer (with whom she co-wrote "'each thing i show you is a piece of my death"") in 2002.[1] They have one child.[citation needed]
Bibliography
TheHexslinger series
—— (2010). A Book of Tongues: Volume One in the Hexslinger Series. ChiZine Publications. ISBN9780981297866.
—— (2011). A Rope of Thorns: Volume Two in the Hexslinger Series. ChiZine Publications. ISBN9781926851143.
—— (2012). A Tree of Bones: Volume Three in the Hexslinger Series. ChiZine Publications. ISBN9781926851570.
—— (2013). The Hexslinger Omnibus (eBooked.). ChiZine Publications. ASINB00EXOT72Q.
