Little Horn is a new collection of fourteen dark short stories and novelettes from Shirley Jackson Award winner and two-time Bram Stoker Award winner Gemma Files.Helping to bring each story to life, this collection includes sixteen full-page illustrations by the author."The Sanguintalist""Echo Chamber""Only Children""Pelican""Hagstone""Poor Butcher-Bird""Pear of Anguish""Bb Minor, or the Su...

"Gemma Files has one of the great dark imaginations in fiction―visionary, transgressive, and totally original." —Jeff VanderMeerIn Gemma Files's "boundary-busting horror–fantasy debut," former Confederate chaplain Asher Rook has cheated death and now possesses a dark magic ( Publishers Weekly). He uses his power to terrorize the Wild West, leading a gang of outlaws, thieves, and killers, with his cruel lieutenant and lover, Chess Pargeter, by his side....

An omnibus edition of the trilogy that's "chock full of hellish horrors" (Mike Allen, author of Unseaming).Saddle up for a wild ride through "boundary-busting horror-fantasy . . . [that] fully delivers both sizzling passions and dark chills" ( Publishers Weekly).A Book of TonguesPinkerton agent Ed Morrow is going undercover to infiltrate an outlaw gang led by former Confederate chaplain As...

"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 presents a mosaic of interconnected stories about interconnected families. After fleeing Scotland, five clans settled in the fictional town of Dourvale in northern Ontario. Known as the Five-Family Coven, they are the...

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 into the uniquely twisted mind of "one of Canada's most promising new horror writers" ( Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation be...

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 characters make their own choices and take their own chances, slipping from darkness into deeper darkness yet never losing their humanity—not even when they’re anything but.An embittered blood-servant plots revenge against the vampires who ow...

"The rousing conclusion to Files's remarkable Hexslinger trilogy . . . A bravura performance" from the author of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns ( Publishers Weekly ).A new Civil War is brewing. With the city of Bewelcome as its headquarters, Allan Pinkerton's Detective Agency leads a siege on Hex City, the town founded by "Reverend" Asher Rook and his consort, the Mayan goddess I...

The second book in the "top-notch horror-fantasy saga," following A Book of Tongues, is "a spectacular blend of Aztec religion and Western gunslinging ( Publishers Weekly).Welcome to Hex City. Population: magicians. Thanks to hexslinger "Reverend" Asher Rook, sorcerers now have a sanctuary where they can live and work in peace. But a storm is coming—a tempest known as Chess Pargeter.Infuriated by his former lover Rook's betrayal and sacrif...

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 listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, behind the paper-thin curtains of reality, lurk monsters both human and an...

Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Caítlin R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Mich...

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 winner Paula Guran said in Horror Garage, "Nobody in a Gemma Files story puts a hand on a doorknob and opens the door they shouldn't—these folks are already in the other side." The inhabitant...

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 media.”Authors include Kenneth Mark Hoover, Peter Darbyshire, Mark Teppo, E. Catherine Tobler, Aurealis Award finalist and winner Ian McHugh, Shirley Jackson Award finalist Gemma Files (author of the Hexslinger novels), and Hugo Awa...