Gemma Files's Blog

Publication Day!

Finally some new stuff. My first collection from Trepidatio Publishing/JournalStone, Spectral Evidence, is out today. Here's the ordering link (http://journalstone.com/slider/spectr...), and here's the gorgeous cover:









Would you believe that was crowd-sourced? Well, it was! Daaaamn, there are some clever people out there.;)



At any rate: With new books come new interviews and

Patreon Post: Fun Horror

FUN HORROR
By Gemma Files, for Patreon


My Facebook friend
Daniel Braum calls fun horror "the smallest category in [his]
genre food pyramid," but to me, that's the category from which
all Halloween playlists should be programmed. Because Halloween is
mostly about a celebration of horror culture, it should embrace the
grotesque and spectacular—the monster movies/mashes, classic and
otherwise,

Patreon Post: Self-Made Awful Objects

SELF-MADE AWFUL OBJECTS: BLOOD CREEK VS. APT PUPILBy Gemma Files, for PatreonEvery once in a while—most 'specially when you're a former film critic with a library full of DVDs and BluRays to program from, I guess—a thematic mash-up double feature suggests itself that's odd enough on the face of it, you really just have to make it so. So by “you” I obviously mean me, for which I apologize. The

Patreon Post: Cats, Masks, Aristocrats

CLASSIC JAPANESE FOLK HORROR MOVIES: CATS, MASKS, ARISTOCRATS
By Gemma Files, for Patreon

One of the things I absolutely love about watching horror from around the world is the same thing I love about watching foreign movies in general—this sense of immersing myself in a different culture, one whose historical references and mythological cues I sometimes don't understand and can have a great

Patreon Post: Cats, Masks, Artistocrats

CLASSIC JAPANESE FOLK HORROR MOVIES: CATS, MASKS, ARISTOCRATS
By Gemma Files, for Patreon

One of the things I absolutely love about watching horror from around the world is the same thing I love about watching foreign movies in general—this sense of immersing myself in a different culture, one whose historical references and mythological cues I sometimes don't understand and can have a great

Anne M. Pilsworth and Ruthanna Emrys Take On "Hairwork"

...at Tor.com's Lovecraft Reread, "in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn." The link is here: https://www.tor.com/2017/09/06/medusa...

Three Hours of Me, Myself and I

The guys at This Is Horror UK let me waffle on for so long, it took three damn episodes to get through it. Here's the result:

Part One: http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-163...
Part Two: http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-164...
Part Three: http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/

Experimental Film: Now Global

I'm incredibly excited to announce my very first translated edition: Experimental Film, from Biblioteca de Carfax, with a stunning new cover. The info is here:



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— Biblioteca de Carfax (@bibliocarfax) April 21, 2017

Multi-Media

Here I am talking to the charming and voluble Kris Abel at What She Said eBook Cafe, on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/whatshesaidtal...). The topics range from Experimental Film (natch) to Matthew Bright's Freeway and John Connolly's Charlie Parker mystery series. Abel's a fun guy, and asked some interesting questions.

Am I, Am I Not

So this is very interesting (http://www.ada-hoffmann.com/2017/02/1...), particularly because it's the first review I've ever seen of Experimental Film that acknowledges that Lois Cairns herself might be on the Autism spectrum. And since I modelled Lois so directly on myself, it basically boils down to me feeling like I've been "recognized" by a