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Gemma Files Books in Order
Gemma Files is a critically acclaimed author, poet, and screenwriter, known for her dark and captivating storytelling. As a former film critic for Toronto's eye Weekly, she brought her keen eye for horror to the international stage, where her story "The Emperor's Old Bones" won the 1999 International Horror Guild award for Best Short Fiction. Files' notable works include two collections of short fiction, <i>Kissing Carrion</i> and <i>The Worm in Every Heart</i>, and two chapbooks of poetry, <i>Bent Under Night</i> and <i>Dust Radio</i>. Her Hexslinger Series trilogy, comprising <i>A Book of Tongues</i>, <i>A Rope of Thorns</i>, and <i>A Tree of Bones</i>, has been met with widespread acclaim and is available from ChiZine Publications.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Gemma Files's book series? Gemma Files has written 8 book series. The most notable is the Best Horror of the Year series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Gemma Files
- #1
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One(2009) - #2
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two(2010) - #3
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three(2011) - #4
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four(2012) - #5
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five(2013) - #6
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six(2014) - #7
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven(2015) - #8
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight(2016) - #9
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine(2017) - #10
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten(2018) - #11
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction(2018) - #12
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven(2019) - #13
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve(2020) - #14
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen(2021) - #15
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen(2022) - #16
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen(2024) - #17
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen(2024) - #18
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen(2025) - #19
Seductive Spectres(1996) - #20
Queer Fear(2000) - #21
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11(2000) - #22
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women(2001) - #23
Queer Fear II(2002) - #24
Dark Terrors 6(2002) - #25
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15(2004) - #26
The Mammoth Book of Monsters(2007) - #27
Mighty Unclean(2009) - #28
Apex Magazine #16, September 2010(2010) - #29
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition(2010) - #30Arcane(2011)
- #31
Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live(2011) - #32
Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live(2011) - #33
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror(2012) - #34
Imaginarium 2012(2012) - #35
A Season in Carcosa(2012) - #36
Best New Horror 23(2012) - #37Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane(2012)
- #38
The Grimscribe's Puppets(2013) - #39
In Words, Alas, Drown I(2013) - #40
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny(2013) - #41
Best New Horror 24(2013) - #42
Dark Discoveries - Issue #26(2014) - #43Stamps, Vamps & Tramps(2014)
- #44
Lovecraft's Monsters(2014) - #45
Fearful Symmetries(2014) - #46
The Children of Old Leech(2014) - #47
Letters to Lovecraft(2014) - #48
The Starry Wisdom Library(2014) - #49
Imaginarium 3(2015) - #50
The Doll Collection(2015) - #51
Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic(2015) - #52
Eulogies III(2015) - #53Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists!(2015)
- #54
The Monstrous(2015) - #55
She Walks in Shadows(2015) - #56
Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place(2016) - #57
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven(2016) - #58
Children of Lovecraft(2016) - #59
Aghast(2016) - #60
The Madness of Dr. Caligari(2016) - #61
Imaginarium 4(2016) - #62
Best New Horror 27(2017) - #63
Looming Low: Volume I(2017) - #64
Chthonic: Weird Tales of Inner Earth(2018) - #65
I Don't Want to Play This Game Anymore(2018) - #66
Fright Into Flight(2018) - #67
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75(2018) - #68
Best New Horror 29(2019) - #69
Vastarien: Vol. 2, Issue 1(2019) - #70
Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom(2019) - #71
Behold the Undead of Dracula(2019) - #72
Apostles of the Weird(2020) - #73
Not Just a Pretty Face(2020) - #74
Weird Dream Society(2020) - #75
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles(2020) - #76
Tales from OmniPark(2021) - #77
In that Endlessness, Our End(2021) - #78Beyond the Book of Eibon(2021)
- #79
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror(2021) - #80
Hymns of Abomination(2021) - #81
Humans are the Problem: A Monster's Anthology(2021) - #82
Humans Are The Problem: A Monster's Anthology(2021) - #83
Body Shocks(2021) - #84
Beyond the Veil(2021) - #85
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror(2022) - #86
Screams from the Dark(2022) - #87
Mother(2022) - #88
Damnation Games(2022) - #89
The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer(2023) - #90
Future Folk Horror(2023) - #91
A Darkness Visible: Explorations of Horror in the Postmodern(2023) - #92
Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror(2023)
- #1
Alien Bootlegger (By: )(1993) - #2
Counting on Wildflowers (By: Kim Antieau)(2005) - #3
Ordinary People (By: Eleanor Arnason)(2005) - #4
Candle in a Bottle (By: Carolyn Ives Gilman)(2006) - #5
Absolute Uncertainty (By: Lucy Sussex)(2006) - #6
Knots (By: Wendy Walker)(2006) - #7
Aliens of the Heart (By: Carolyn Ives Gilman)(2007) - #8
Voices from Fairyland (By: Theodora Goss)(2008) - #9
Three Observations and a Dialogue (By: Sylvia Kelso)(2010) - #10
Through the Drowsy Dark (By: Rachel Swirsky)(2010) - #11
Slightly Behind and to the Left (By: Claire Light)(2010) - #12
With Her Body (By: Nicola Griffith)(2011) - #13
The Red Rose Rages (By: L. Timmel Duchamp)(2011) - #14
The Grand Conversation (By: L. Timmel Duchamp)(2011) - #15
Distances (By: Vandana Singh)(2011) - #16
Shotgun Lullabies (By: Sheree Renée Thomas)(2011) - #17
Of Love and Other Monsters (By: Vandana Singh)(2011) - #18
De Secretis Mulierum (By: L. Timmel Duchamp)(2011) - #19
A Brood of Foxes (By: Kristin Livdahl)(2011) - #20
The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor (By: Anne Sheldon)(2011) - #21
Writing the Other (By: Cynthia Ward)(2011) - #22
The Bone Spindle (By: Anne Sheldon)(2011) - #23
Talking Back (By: E.C. Myers)(2011) - #24
The Last Letter (By: Fiona Lehn)(2011) - #25
Making Love in Madrid (By: Kimberly Todd Wade)(2012) - #26
We Wuz Pushed (By: Lee Mandelo)(2012) - #27
The Traveling Tide (By: Rosaleen Love)(2012) - #28
The Receptionist (By: Lesley Wheeler)(2012) - #29
Birds and Birthdays (By: Christopher Barzak)(2012) - #30
Naomi Mitchison (By: Lesley A. Hall)(2012) - #31
The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (By: Richard Bowes)(2013) - #32
Spring in Geneva (By: Sylvia Kelso)(2013) - #33
The XY Conspiracy (By: Lori Selke)(2013) - #34
Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction (By: Sheila Finch)(2014) - #35
Numa: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages (By: Katrinka Moore)(2014) - #36
NoFood (By: Sarah Tolmie)(2014) - #37
The Haunted Girl (By: Lisa M. Bradley)(2014) - #38
Three Songs for Roxy (By: Caren Gussoff)(2015) - #39
Ghost Signs (By: Sonya Taaffe)(2015) - #40
The Prince of the Aquamarines (By: Ruth Berman)(2015) - #41
Back, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales (By: Celeste Rita Baker)(2015) - #42
A Day in Deep Freeze (By: Lisa Shapter)(2015) - #43
Marginalia to Stone Bird (By: R.B. Lemberg)(2016) - #44
Unpronounceable (By: Susan diRende)(2016) - #45
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (By: Sheree Renée Thomas)(2016) - #46
Other Places (By: Karen Heuler)(2016) - #47
Monteverde (By: Lawrence Schimel)(2016) - #48
The Adventure of the Incognita Countess (By: Cynthia Ward)(2017) - #49
Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future (By: Beth Plutchak)(2017) - #50
A Field Guide to the Spirits (By: Jean LeBlanc)(2017) - #51
Liberating the Astronauts (By: Christina M. Rau)(2017) - #52
In Search of Lost Time (By: Karen Heuler)(2017) - #53
We, Robots (By: Sue Lange)(2017) - #54
Cosmovore (By: Kristi Carter)(2017) - #55
Helen's Story (By: Rosanne Rabinowitz)(2017) - #56
Liminal Spaces (By: Beth Plutchak)(2018) - #57
Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints (By: Alex Dally MacFarlane)(2018) - #58
If Not Skin (By: Toby MacNutt)(2018) - #59
Changeling (By: Nancy Jane Moore)(2018) - #60
The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum (By: Cynthia Ward)(2018) - #61
People Change (By: Gwynne Garfinkle)(2018) - #62
Invocabulary(2018) - #63
The Green and Growing (By: Erin K. Wagner)(2019) - #64
Everything is Made of Letters (By: Sofía Rhei)(2019) - #65
Midnight at the Organporium (By: Tara Campbell)(2019) - #66
Algorithmic Shapeshifting (By: Bogi Takács)(2019) - #67
The Rampant (By: Julie C. Day)(2019) - #68
Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (By: Octavia Cade,Crista Kempton)(2019) - #69
Articulation (By: Cesi Davidson)(2019) - #70
City of a Thousand Feelings (By: Anya Johanna DeNiro)(2020) - #71
The Adventure of the Naked Guide (By: Cynthia Ward)(2020) - #72
Ancient Songs of Us (By: Jean LeBlanc)(2020) - #73
Sacred Summer (By: Cassandra Clarke)(2020) - #74
Disease (By: Sarah Tolmie)(2020) - #75
Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms (By: Hal Y. Zhang)(2020) - #76
Resistance and Transformation (By: Mari Ness)(2021) - #77
The Silences of Ararat (By: L. Timmel Duchamp)(2021) - #78
Cabinet of Wrath (By: Tara Campbell)(2021) - #79
The Adventure of the Golden Woman (By: Cynthia Ward)(2021) - #80
Fricatives (By: Cesi Davidson)(2021) - #81
We’ve Been Here Before (By: Anne Carly Abad)(2022) - #82
Bilabials (By: Cesi Davidson)(2022) - #83
When Home, No Need to Cry (By: Erin K. Wagner)(2022) - #84
Apollo Weeps (By: Xian Mao)(2023) - #85
To the Woman in the Pink Hat (By: LaToya Jordan)(2023) - #86
From Voyages Unreturning (By: Deborah L. Davitt)(2023)
- #1
A Book of Tongues(2010) - #2
A Rope of Thorns(2011) - #3
A Tree of Bones(2012)
- #1
Strangers Among Us(2016) - #2
The Sum Of Us(2017) - #3
Where the Stars Rise(2017) - #4
Shades Within Us(2018) - #5
Seasons Between Us(2021)
- #1
Dark Forces at Work: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors(2019) - #2
Violence in the Films of Stephen King(2021) - #3
Gothic Mash-Ups: Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling(2022) - #4
The Anthropocene and the Undead: Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination(2022) - #5
Supranational Horrors: Italian and Spanish Horror Cinema since 1968(2022) - #6
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss(2022) - #7
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century(2023) - #8Future Folk Horror(2023)
- #9
Transnational Zombie Cinema, 2010 to 2020: Readings in a Mutating Tradition(2023) - #10
The Ethics of Horror: Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First-Century Horror Film(2024) - #11
Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust(2024) - #12
Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse(2024) - #13Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney’s Haunted Mansion(2024)
- #14
Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith(2024)
- #1
The Abyssal Plain (By: Brett J. Talley,Michelle Garza,WilliamHolloway)(2019) - #2
Black Seas of Infinity(2024)
- #1
We Will All Go Down Together(2014) - #2
Experimental Film(2015) - #3
Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death (With: Stephen J. Barringer)(2009) - #4
The Jacaranda Smile(2009) - #5Kissing Carrion(2003)
- #6The Worm in Every Heart(2004)
- #7
Spectral Evidence(2018) - #8
Drawn Up From Deep Places(2018) - #9
Dark is Better(2023) - #10
Blood from the Air(2023) - #11
Little Horn(2025)
- #1
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition (By: Paula Guran)(2018) - #2The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition(2010)
- #3
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition(2011) - #4
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition(2012) - #5
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition(2013) - #6
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition(2014) - #7
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition(2015) - #8
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition(2016) - #9
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition(2017) - #10The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition(2018)
- #11
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition(2020) - #12
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1(2020) - #13
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2(2021) - #14
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3(2022) - #15
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4(2023) - #16
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5(2024) - #17
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 5(2024)
About Gemma Files
Gemma Files is a critically acclaimed author, poet, and screenwriter, known for her dark and captivating storytelling. As a former film critic for Toronto's eye Weekly, she brought her keen eye for horror to the international stage, where her story "The Emperor's Old Bones" won the 1999 International Horror Guild award for Best Short Fiction. Files' notable works include two collections of short fiction, <i>Kissing Carrion</i> and <i>The Worm in Every Heart</i>, and two chapbooks of poetry, <i>Bent Under Night</i> and <i>Dust Radio</i>. Her Hexslinger Series trilogy, comprising <i>A Book of Tongues</i>, <i>A Rope of Thorns</i>, and <i>A Tree of Bones</i>, has been met with widespread acclaim and is available from ChiZine Publications.
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