The Worm in Every Heart: Stories

The Worm in Every Heart: Stories - Paperback

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The Worm in Every Heart: Stories - Paperback

The Worm in Every Heart: Stories - Paperback

by Gemma Files
$21.58
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Book Overview

Finally back in print! The second collection from Gemma Files, the multi-time Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winning author of Experimental Film, and whose stories "overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror" (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World).

"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." (Paula Guran in Horror Garage) The inhabitants of the stories in The Worm in Every Heart include gods and madmen, arsonists and ancient vampires, monsters and mothers who don't know how to love. No matter where they live--Warsaw during World War II, British India, or modern-day Toronto--their realities are not our own, but ones in which we'll willingly immerse ourselves for a terrifying moment or two...
ISBN9798897320486
Author Gemma Files
PublisherShortwave
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages424
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Gemma Files

Gemma Files, a former film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and teacher, has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work; two chapbooks of speculative poetry; the "weird western" Hexslinger Series; a story-cycle; and the standalone novel Experimental Film, which won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst Award for Best Adult Novel. Files also has several story collections and a collection of poetry forthcoming.

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