Blood from the Air
Horror Short Story Collection
by Gemma Files
Angels and insects, holes in the known world’s fabric and what comes out of them, the love of death and the death of love. In award-winning horror author Gemma Files’s seventh collection of short fiction, the numinous and the awful tango together through a collapsing series of not-so-alternate realities, and everyone they touch emerges changed, whether or not they may have wanted to be.
This is fantasy of the darkest sort, horror-cured, marinating in its own transformative juices. So enter a fractured universe of creepy delights, one where the oldest tropes are turned inside out and wrung for their oddest components, as forgotten gods and monsters cavort beneath a storm of BLOOD FROM THE AIR.
REVIEW
5 out of 5
This was intriguing from the start, and before you know it, you’re deep into the story and reluctant to stop reading. There are moments in this that will make your skin crawl, and raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Although these are short stories, and you could easily stop after each one, there’s something that pulls you along, wanting to read the next one. I can’t say I have a favorite, although they are unique, there’s a unifying thread and all were equally enjoyable. I was fascinated by the characters, and settings chosen. Files has an excellent talent for vivid descriptions and keeping tension high as you read. This book is a must for any horror lover!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Previously best-known as a film critic for Toronto’s eye Weekly, teacher and screenwriter, Gemma Files first broke onto the international horror scene when her story “The Emperor’s Old Bones” won the 1999 International Horror Guild award for Best Short Fiction. She is the author of two collections of short work (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart) and two chapbooks of poetry (Bent Under Night and Dust Radio). Her Hexslinger Series trilogy is now complete: A Book of Tongues, A Rope of Thorns and A Tree of Bones, all available from ChiZine Publications.
