Oct 27, 2023
Gemma Files, from 'Experimental Film'
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Gemma Files, from 'Experimental Film'
Cover artwork for Spanish language edition of Gemma Files' Experimental Film, by Rafael Martin
your hands, on my face, every step of the way
"The problem with thinking you're the centre of the world is always wondering why, if that's so, do you palpably not control a single goddamn thing?"
— Gemma Files, Experimental Film
Cover reveal for NIGHT & DAY – A horror anthology edited by Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in the light of day in this new addition to the Saga Doubles series.
🌙Night—Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror
Trash Night by Clay McLeod Chapman
We Take Off Our Skin in the Dark by Eric LaRocca
The Door of Sleep by Stephen Graham Jones
At Night, My Dad by Dan Chaon
The Night House by Gemma Files
The Night-Mirrors by Pat Cadigan
Fear of the Dark by Benjamin Percy
The Picknicker by Josh Malerman
Secret Night by Nathan Ballingrud
☀️Day—Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight
The Bright Day by Priya Sharma
Faire by Rachel Harrison
Trick of the Light by Brian Evenson
One Day by Jeffrey Ford
The Wanting by A.T. Greenblatt
Hold Us in the Light by A.C. Wise
Dismaying Creatures by Robert Shearman
Bitter Skin by Kaaron Warren
Cold Iron by Sophie White
Releases 2nd September 2025!
I think people who like MDZS for it's harsh, but fantastic world and any Themes would absolutely love the "Hexslinger Trilogy" by Gemma Files.
It has everything.
Amazing world-buildig and a fairly fresh take on magic and witchcraft.
Gay cowboys.
Insane romance between insane people.
Gray protagonist (gray-everyone with few exceptions)
Multicultural boiling pot of mysticism and magic that uses the Wild WestTM setting to it's full extent.
Diversity that isn't forced, because the Wild WestTM is a melting pot of cultures and people's, and moving amongst the outcasts will make you meet them all.
A lot of murder and blood-based magic. Necromancy and gore galore. Jiang Cheng in a female body (you'll know hrler when you see her). Unhinged and heartbreaking romance plot that starts everything and ends everything.
Battle-fucking-spider-steeds.
@pennflinn tagged me in the 9 books I want to read in 2025 post!
The top three are really standing in for full series, The Expanse list alone would take up all nine spots pretty much.
I'll pass this no-pressure tag along to @aurorawest and @abigailspinach and of course, open tag if anyone has been wanted to do this. Also as always no pressure!
Also honorable mention/delusional hope:
*sobs* please? please I've been so good, I've been so patient please??? TT.TT
Have you read...
Experimental Film by Gemma Files
Yes, I LOVED it
Yes, I liked it
Yes (neutral or complicated opinion)
Yes, I didn't like it
Yes, I HATED it
No, but I have consumed other media for it (movie, show, etc.)
No, but I have wanted to read it
I have never heard of this book before but now I want to read it
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Partly/did not finish enough to make an opinion
Currently reading
Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns-jobless and depressed in the wake of her son's autism diagnosis-accidentally discovers the existence of lost early 20th century Ontario filmmaker Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb. By deciding to investigate how Mrs. Whitcomb's obsessions might have led to her mysterious disappearance, Lois unwittingly invites the forces which literally haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films into her life, eventually putting her son, her husband and herself in danger. Experimental Film mixes painful character detail with a creeping aura of dread to produce a fictionalized "memoir" designed to play on its readers' narrative expectations and pack an existentialist punch.
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