Published in 2025
350 pages
Born April 4, 1968, in London, England, Gemma Files is the child of two actors (Elva Mai Hoover and Gary Files), and has lived most of her life in Toronto, Canada. Previously best-known as a film critic, teacher and screenwriter, she first broke onto the horror scene when her short story “The Emperor’s Old Bones” won the International Horror Guild’s 1999 award for Best Short Fiction. Her current bibliography includes two collections of short work (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart, both Prime Books) and two chapbooks of poetry (Bent Under Night, from Sinnersphere Productions, and Dust Radio, from Kelp Queen Press). Her first novel, A Book of Tongues: Volume One in the Hexslinger Series (CZP), was published in April 2010. The trilogy is now complete, including sequels A Rope of Thorns (2011) and A Tree of Bones (2012). Files is married to fellow author Stephen J. Barringer, with whom she co-wrote the story “each thing i show you is a piece of my death” for Clockwork Phoenix 2 (Norilana Books). They have one son.
What is this book about?
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.
“Little Horn”
“The Sanguintalist”
“Echo Chamber”
“Only Children”
“Pelican”
“Hagstone”
“Poor Butcher-Bird”
“Pear of Anguish”
“Bb Minor, or the Suicide Choir: An Oral History”
“Black Cohosh”
“Wet Red Grin”
“No Light, No Light”
“Oil of Angels”
“Yellowback”
