Gemma Files, nacida el 4 de abril de 1968 en Londres, Inglaterra, es hija de dos actores, Elva Mai Hoover y Gary Files. Ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida en Toronto, Canadá. Inicialmente, ganó reconocimiento como crítica de cine, docente y guionista. Sin embargo, el salto de Files a la escena internacional del horror se produjo cuando su historia corta "The Emperor's Old Bones" ganó el Premio Internacional de Horror Guild a la Mejor Ficción Corta en 1999. Este reconocimiento impulsó su carrera como escritora y la estableció como una figura destacada en el género de terror.
Gemma Files tiene una amplia bibliografía, incluyendo dos colecciones de relatos cortos, Kissing Carrion y The Worm in Every Heart, publicadas por Prime Books. También ha publicado dos plaquettes de poesía, Bent Under Night y Dust Radio, de Sinnersphere Productions y Kelp Queen Press, respectivamente. En 2010, Files publicó su primera novela, A Book of Tongues: Volume One in the Hexslinger Series, publicada por ChiZine Publications. La serie, que también incluye A Rope of Thorns (2011) y A Tree of Bones (2012), ha sido bien recibida por los fanáticos del terror. Actualmente, está trabajando en su primera novela independiente. Además de su trabajo individual, Files también ha colaborado con su esposo, el escritor Stephen J. Barringer, con quien coescribió la historia "each thing i show you is a piece of my death" para Clockwork Phoenix 2 (Norilana Books). Tienen un hijo en común.
Hexslinger Books
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A Book of Tongues
2010
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A Rope of Thorns
2011
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A Tree of Bones
2012
Novelas independientes
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We Will All Go Down Together
2014
2
Experimental Film
2015
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
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Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death
2009
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Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death (With: Stephen J. Barringer)
2009
3
The Jacaranda Smile
2009
Colecciones
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Kissing Carrion
2003
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The Worm in Every Heart
2004
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Spectral Evidence
2018
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Drawn Up From Deep Places
2018
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Dark is Better
2023
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Blood from the Air
2023
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Little Horn
2025
Conversation Pieces Books
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1
Alien Bootlegger
1993
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Alien Bootlegger ( By: Rebecca Ore)
1993
3
Counting on Wildflowers
2005
4
Counting on Wildflowers (By: Kim Antieau)
2005
5
Ordinary People (By: Eleanor Arnason)
2005
6
Ordinary People
2005
7
Candle in a Bottle (By: Carolyn Ives Gilman)
2006
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Candle in a Bottle
2006
9
Absolute Uncertainty
2006
10
Absolute Uncertainty ( By: Lucy Sussex)
2006
11
Knots
2006
12
Knots (By: Wendy Walker)
2006
13
Aliens of the Heart (By: Carolyn Ives Gilman)
2007
14
Aliens of the Heart
2007
15
Voices from Fairyland (By: Theodora Goss)
2008
16
Voices from Fairyland
2008
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Three Observations and a Dialogue ( By: Sylvia Kelso)
2010
18
Three Observations and a Dialogue
2010
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Through the Drowsy Dark
2010
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Through the Drowsy Dark (By: Rachel Swirsky)
2010
21
Slightly Behind and to the Left (By: Claire Light)
2010
22
Slightly Behind and to the Left
2010
23
With Her Body
2011
24
With Her Body (By: Nicola Griffith)
2011
25
The Red Rose Rages (By: L. Duchamp)
2011
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The Red Rose Rages
2011
27
The Grand Conversation
2011
28
The Grand Conversation (By: L. Duchamp)
2011
29
Distances
2011
30
Distances (By: Vandana Singh)
2011
31
Shotgun Lullabies (By: Sheree Renée Thomas)
2011
32
Shotgun Lullabies
2011
33
Of Love and Other Monsters (By: Vandana Singh)
2011
34
Of Love and Other Monsters
2011
35
De Secretis Mulierum (By: L. Duchamp)
2011
36
De Secretis Mulierum
2011
37
A Brood of Foxes
2011
38
A Brood of Foxes (By: Kristin Livdahl)
2011
39
The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor
2011
40
The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor (By: Anne Sheldon)
2011
41
Writing the Other
2011
42
Writing the Other (By: Cynthia Ward)
2011
43
The Bone Spindle
2011
44
The Bone Spindle (By: Anne Sheldon)
2011
45
Talking Back (By: E.C. Myers)
2011
46
Talking Back
2011
47
The Last Letter
2011
48
The Last Letter (By: Fiona Lehn)
2011
49
Making Love in Madrid
2012
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Making Love in Madrid (By: Kimberly Todd Wade)
2012
51
We Wuz Pushed
2012
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We Wuz Pushed (By: Lee Mandelo)
2012
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The Traveling Tide
2012
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The Traveling Tide (By: Rosaleen Love)
2012
55
The Receptionist
2012
56
The Receptionist (By: Lesley Wheeler)
2012
57
Birds and Birthdays
2012
58
Birds and Birthdays (By: Christopher Barzak)
2012
59
Naomi Mitchison (By: Lesley A. Hall)
2012
60
Naomi Mitchison
2012
61
The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others
2013
62
The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (By: Richard Bowes)
2013
63
Spring in Geneva (By: Sylvia Kelso)
2013
64
Spring in Geneva
2013
65
The XY Conspiracy (By: Lori Selke)
2013
66
The XY Conspiracy
2013
67
Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction
2014
68
Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction ( By: Sheila Finch)
2014
69
Numa: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages (By: Katrinka Moore)
2014
70
Numa: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages
2014
71
NoFood (By: Sarah Tolmie)
2014
72
NoFood
2014
73
The Haunted Girl
2014
74
The Haunted Girl (By: Lisa M. Bradley)
2014
75
Three Songs for Roxy
2015
76
Three Songs for Roxy (By: Caren Gussoff)
2015
77
Ghost Signs
2015
78
Ghost Signs (By: Sonya Taaffe)
2015
79
The Prince of the Aquamarines (By: Ruth Berman)
2015
80
The Prince of the Aquamarines
2015
81
Back, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales (By: Celeste Rita Baker)
2015
82
Back, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales
2015
83
A Day in Deep Freeze (By: Lisa Shapter)
2015
84
A Day in Deep Freeze
2015
85
Marginalia to Stone Bird (By: R.B. Lemberg)
2016
86
Marginalia to Stone Bird
2016
87
Unpronounceable
2016
88
Unpronounceable (By: Susan diRende)
2016
89
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
2016
90
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (By: Sheree Renée Thomas)
2016
91
Other Places (By: Karen Heuler)
2016
92
Other Places
2016
93
Monteverde (By: Lawrence Schimel)
2016
94
Monteverde
2016
95
The Adventure of the Incognita Countess (By: Cynthia Ward)
2017
96
The Adventure of the Incognita Countess
2017
97
Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future (By: Beth Plutchak)
2017
98
Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future
2017
99
A Field Guide to the Spirits (By: Jean LeBlanc)
2017
100
A Field Guide to the Spirits
2017
101
Liberating the Astronauts (By: Christina M. Rau)
2017
102
Liberating the Astronauts
2017
103
In Search of Lost Time
2017
104
In Search of Lost Time (By: Karen Heuler)
2017
105
We, Robots (By: Sue Lange)
2017
106
We, Robots
2017
107
Cosmovore (By: Kristi Carter)
2017
108
Helen's Story (By: Rosanne Rabinowitz)
2017
109
Cosmovore
2017
110
Helen's Story
2017
111
Liminal Spaces (By: Beth Plutchak)
2018
112
Liminal Spaces
2018
113
Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints (By: Alex Dally MacFarlane)
2018
114
If Not Skin (By: Toby MacNutt)
2018
115
Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints
2018
116
Changeling (By: Nancy Jane Moore)
2018
117
If Not Skin
2018
118
Changeling
2018
119
The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum (By: Cynthia Ward)
2018
120
People Change (By: Gwynne Garfinkle)
2018
121
The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum
2018
122
Invocabulary
2018
123
People Change
2018
124
The Green and Growing (By: Erin K. Wagner)
2019
125
Everything is Made of Letters (By: Sofía Rhei)
2019
126
The Green and Growing
2019
127
Midnight at the Organporium (By: Tara Campbell)
2019
128
Everything is Made of Letters
2019
129
Algorithmic Shapeshifting (By: Bogi Takács)
2019
130
Midnight at the Organporium
2019
131
Algorithmic Shapeshifting
2019
132
The Rampant (By: Julie C. Day)
2019
133
The Rampant
2019
134
Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (By: Octavia Cade, Crista Kempton)
2019
135
Mary Shelley Makes a Monster
2019
136
Articulation (By: Cesi Davidson)
2019
137
Articulation
2019
138
City of a Thousand Feelings (By: Anya Johanna DeNiro)
2020
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City of a Thousand Feelings
2020
140
The Adventure of the Naked Guide (By: Cynthia Ward)
2020
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The Adventure of the Naked Guide
2020
142
Ancient Songs of Us (By: Jean LeBlanc)
2020
143
Sacred Summer (By: Cassandra Clarke)
2020
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Ancient Songs of Us
2020
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Sacred Summer
2020
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Disease (By: Sarah Tolmie)
2020
147
Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms (By: Hal Y. Zhang)
2020
148
Disease
2020
149
Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms
2020
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Resistance and Transformation (By: Mari Ness)
2021
151
Resistance and Transformation
2021
152
The Silences of Ararat (By: L. Duchamp)
2021
153
The Silences of Ararat
2021
154
Cabinet of Wrath (By: Tara Campbell)
2021
155
The Adventure of the Golden Woman (By: Cynthia Ward)
2021
156
Cabinet of Wrath
2021
157
The Adventure of the Golden Woman
2021
158
Fricatives (By: Cesi Davidson)
2021
159
We’ve Been Here Before (By: Anne Carly Abad)
2022
160
Fricatives
2021
161
Bilabials (By: Cesi Davidson)
2022
162
We’ve Been Here Before
2022
163
When Home, No Need to Cry (By: Erin K. Wagner)
2022
164
Bilabials
2022
165
When Home, No Need to Cry
2022
166
Apollo Weeps (By: Xian Mao)
2023
167
Apollo Weeps
2023
168
To the Woman in the Pink Hat (By: LaToya Jordan)
2023
169
From Voyages Unreturning (By: Deborah L. Davitt)
2023
170
To the Woman in the Pink Hat
2023
171
From Voyages Unreturning
2023
R'lyeh Cycle Books
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The Abyssal Plain (By: Brett J. Talley, Michelle Garza, William Holloway)
2019
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Black Seas of Infinity
2024
Clockwork Phoenix Books
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Clockwork Phoenix (By: Tanith Lee, John C. Wright, Deborah Biancotti, Laird Barron, Mike Allen, Vandana Singh, Catherynne M. Valente, Cat Rambo, Cat Sparks, John Grant, Ekaterina Sedia, Leah Bobet, Erin Hoffman, Michael J. DeLuca, Jennifer Crow, C.S. MacCath, David Sandner, Marie Brennan, Joanna Galbraith)
2008
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Clockwork Phoenix 2 (With: Tanith Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, Steve Rasnic Tem, Saladin Ahmed, Forrest Aguirre, Mike Allen, Catherynne M. Valente, Claude Lalumière, Kelly Barnhill, Ian McHugh, Leah Bobet, Barbara Krasnoff, Marie Brennan, Ann Leckie, Joanna Galbraith, Stephen J. Barringer)
2009
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Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (With: Tanith Lee, John C. Wright, Gregory Frost, Michael M. Jones, Mike Allen, Cat Rambo, John Grant, Kenneth Schneyer, Shweta Narayan, C.S.E. Cooney, Georgina Bruce, Marie Brennan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Tori Truslow, S.J. Hirons)
2010
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Clockwork Phoenix 4 (With: Tanith Lee, Richard Parks, A.C. Wise, Mike Allen, Yves Meynard, Cat Rambo, Kenneth Schneyer, Alisa Alering, Ian McHugh, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Shira Lipkin, Barbara Krasnoff, Patricia Russo, Camille Alexa, Marie Brennan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Yukimi Ogawa, Corinne Duyvis)
2013
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Clockwork Phoenix 5 (By: Alex Dally MacFarlane, A.C. Wise, Mike Allen, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, Cassandra Khaw, C.S.E. Cooney, Carlos Hernandez, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Sonya Taaffe, Beth Cato, Barbara Krasnoff, Patricia Russo, Gray Rinehart, Marie Brennan, Sam Fleming, Shveta Thakrar, Holly Heisey, Jason Kimble, Rachael L. Jones, Rob Cameron, Sunil Patel)
2016
Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction Books
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Strangers Among Us
2016
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The Sum Of Us
2017
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Where the Stars Rise
2017
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Shades Within Us
2018
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Seasons Between Us
2021
Lexington Books Horror Studies Books
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Dark Forces at Work: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
2019
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Violence in the Films of Stephen King
2021
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Gothic Mash-Ups: Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling
2022
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The Anthropocene and the Undead: Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
2022
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Supranational Horrors: Italian and Spanish Horror Cinema since 1968
2022
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Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss
2022
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The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century
2023
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Future Folk Horror
2023
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Transnational Zombie Cinema, 2010 to 2020: Readings in a Mutating Tradition
2023
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The Ethics of Horror: Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First-Century Horror Film
2024
11
Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust
2024
12
Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse
2024
13
Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney’s Haunted Mansion
2024
14
Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith
2024
Gemma Files Anthologies
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Seductive Spectres
1996
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Queer Fear
2000
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11
2000
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The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
2001
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Queer Fear II
2002
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Dark Terrors 6
2002
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
2004
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The Mammoth Book of Monsters
2007
9
Mighty Unclean
2009
10
Clockwork Phoenix 2
2009
11
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
2010
12
Apex Magazine #16, September 2010
2010
13
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
2010
14
Arcane
2011
15
Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
2010
16
Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live
2011
17
Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live
2011
18
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
2012
19
Imaginarium 2012
2012
20
A Season in Carcosa
2012
21
Best New Horror 23
2012
22
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane
2012
23
The Grimscribe's Puppets
2013
24
In Words, Alas, Drown I
2013
25
Clockwork Phoenix 4
2013
26
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny
2013
27
Chilling Tales: In Words, Alas, Drown I
2013
28
Best New Horror 24
2013
29
Dark Discoveries - Issue #26
2014
30
Stamps, Vamps & Tramps
2014
31
Lovecraft's Monsters
2014
32
Fearful Symmetries
2014
33
The Children of Old Leech
2014
34
Letters to Lovecraft
2014
35
The Starry Wisdom Library
2014
36
Imaginarium 3
2015
37
The Doll Collection
2015
38
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
2015
39
Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
2015
40
Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic
2015
41
Eulogies III
2015
42
Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists!
2015
43
The Monstrous
2015
44
She Walks in Shadows
2015
45
Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place
2016
46
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven
2016
47
Children of Lovecraft
2016
48
Aghast
2016
49
The Madness of Dr. Caligari
2016
50
Imaginarium 4
2016
51
Best New Horror 27
2017
52
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
2017
53
Looming Low: Volume I
2017
54
Chthonic: Weird Tales of Inner Earth
2018
55
I Don't Want to Play This Game Anymore
2018
56
Fright Into Flight
2018
57
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75
2018
58
Best New Horror 29
2019
59
Vastarien: Vol. 2, Issue 1
2019
60
Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom
2019
61
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
2019
62
Behold the Undead of Dracula
2019
63
Apostles of the Weird
2020
64
Not Just a Pretty Face
2020
65
Weird Dream Society
2020
66
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles
2020
67
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
2020
68
Tales from OmniPark
2021
69
In that Endlessness, Our End
2021
70
Beyond the Book of Eibon
2021
71
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror
2021
72
Hymns of Abomination
2021
73
Humans Are The Problem: A Monster's Anthology
2021
74
Body Shocks
2021
75
Beyond the Veil
2021
76
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
2022
77
Screams from the Dark
2022
78
Mother
2022
79
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
2022
80
Damnation Games
2022
81
The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer
2023
82
Future Folk Horror
2023
83
A Darkness Visible: Explorations of Horror in the Postmodern