Gemma Files, nata il 4 aprile 1968 a Londra, in Inghilterra, è la figlia di due attori, Elva Mai Hoover e Gary Files. Ha trascorso la maggior parte della sua vita a Toronto, in Canada. Inizialmente, Files ha guadagnato riconoscimenti come critica cinematografica, insegnante e sceneggiatrice. Tuttavia, Files si è affermata sulla scena horror internazionale quando la sua storia breve "The Emperor's Old Bones" ha vinto il Premio Internazionale Horror per la Miglior Fiction Breve nel 1999. Questo riconoscimento ha dato impulso alla sua carriera da scrittrice ed è diventata una figura di spicco nel genere horror.
Files vanta una vasta bibliografia, tra cui due raccolte di storie brevi, Kissing Carrion e The Worm in Every Heart, entrambe pubblicate da Prime Books. Ha anche pubblicato due raccolte di poesie, Bent Under Night e Dust Radio, da Sinnersphere Productions e Kelp Queen Press, rispettivamente. Nel 2010, Files ha pubblicato il suo primo romanzo, A Book of Tongues: Volume One in the Hexslinger Series, pubblicato da ChiZine Publications. La serie, che include anche A Rope of Thorns (2011) e A Tree of Bones (2012), è stata accolta positivamente dai fan dell'horror. Attualmente, sta lavorando al suo primo romanzo stand-alone. Oltre al suo lavoro individuale, Files ha anche collaborato con suo marito, l'autore Stephen J. Barringer, con il quale ha co-scritto la storia "each thing i show you is a piece of my death" per Clockwork Phoenix 2 (Norilana Books). Hanno un figlio insieme.
Hexslinger Books
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1
A Book of Tongues
2010
2
A Rope of Thorns
2011
3
A Tree of Bones
2012
Romanzi singoli
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1
We Will All Go Down Together
2014
2
Experimental Film
2015
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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1
Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death
2009
2
The Jacaranda Smile
2009
Collezioni
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1
Kissing Carrion
2003
2
The Worm in Every Heart
2004
3
Spectral Evidence
2018
4
Drawn Up From Deep Places
2018
5
Dark is Better
2023
6
Blood from the Air
2023
Conversation Pieces Books
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Anno
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1
Alien Bootlegger
1993
2
Counting on Wildflowers
2005
3
Ordinary People
2005
4
Candle in a Bottle
2006
5
Absolute Uncertainty
2006
6
Knots
2006
7
Aliens of the Heart
2007
8
Voices from Fairyland
2008
9
Three Observations and a Dialogue
2010
10
Through the Drowsy Dark
2010
11
Slightly Behind and to the Left
2010
12
With Her Body
2011
13
The Red Rose Rages
2011
14
The Grand Conversation
2011
15
Distances
2011
16
Shotgun Lullabies
2011
17
Of Love and Other Monsters
2011
18
De Secretis Mulierum
2011
19
A Brood of Foxes
2011
20
The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor
2011
21
Writing the Other
2011
22
The Bone Spindle
2011
23
Talking Back
2011
24
The Last Letter
2011
25
Making Love in Madrid
2012
26
We Wuz Pushed
2012
27
The Traveling Tide
2012
28
The Receptionist
2012
29
Birds and Birthdays
2012
30
Naomi Mitchison
2012
31
The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others
2013
32
Spring in Geneva
2013
33
The XY Conspiracy
2013
34
Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction
2014
35
Numa: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages
2014
36
NoFood
2014
37
The Haunted Girl
2014
38
Three Songs for Roxy
2015
39
Ghost Signs
2015
40
The Prince of the Aquamarines
2015
41
Back, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales
2015
42
A Day in Deep Freeze
2015
43
Marginalia to Stone Bird
2016
44
Unpronounceable
2016
45
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
2016
46
Other Places
2016
47
Monteverde
2016
48
The Adventure of the Incognita Countess
2017
49
Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future
2017
50
A Field Guide to the Spirits
2017
51
Liberating the Astronauts
2017
52
In Search of Lost Time
2017
53
We, Robots
2017
54
Cosmovore
2017
55
Helen's Story
2017
56
Liminal Spaces
2018
57
Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints
2018
58
If Not Skin
2018
59
Changeling
2018
60
The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum
2018
61
People Change
2018
62
Invocabulary
2018
63
The Green and Growing
2019
64
Everything is Made of Letters
2019
65
Midnight at the Organporium
2019
66
Algorithmic Shapeshifting
2019
67
The Rampant
2019
68
Mary Shelley Makes a Monster
2019
69
Articulation
2019
70
City of a Thousand Feelings
2020
71
The Adventure of the Naked Guide
2020
72
Ancient Songs of Us
2020
73
Sacred Summer
2020
74
Disease
2020
75
Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms
2020
76
Resistance and Transformation
2021
77
The Silences of Ararat
2021
78
Cabinet of Wrath
2021
79
The Adventure of the Golden Woman
2021
80
Fricatives
2021
81
We’ve Been Here Before
2022
82
Bilabials
2022
83
When Home, No Need to Cry
2022
84
Apollo Weeps
2023
85
To the Woman in the Pink Hat
2023
86
From Voyages Unreturning
2023
Gemma Files Anthologies
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Seductive Spectres
1996
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Queer Fear
2000
3
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11
2000
4
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
2001
5
Queer Fear II
2002
6
Dark Terrors 6
2002
7
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
2004
8
The Mammoth Book of Monsters
2007
9
Mighty Unclean
2009
10
Clockwork Phoenix 2
2009
11
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
2009
12
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
2010
13
Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
2010
14
Apex Magazine #16, September 2010
2010
15
Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live
2011
16
Arcane
2011
17
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
2012
18
Imaginarium 2012
2012
19
A Season in Carcosa
2012
20
Best New Horror 23
2012
21
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane
2012
22
The Grimscribe's Puppets
2013
23
Clockwork Phoenix 4
2013
24
Chilling Tales: In Words, Alas, Drown I
2013
25
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny
2013
26
Best New Horror 24
2013
27
Stamps, Vamps & Tramps
2014
28
Lovecraft's Monsters
2014
29
Fearful Symmetries
2014
30
The Children of Old Leech
2014
31
Imaginarium 4
2014
32
Letters to Lovecraft
2014
33
The Starry Wisdom Library
2014
34
Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
2015
35
The Doll Collection
2015
36
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
2015
37
Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic
2015
38
Eulogies III
2015
39
Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists!
2015
40
The Monstrous
2015
41
She Walks in Shadows
2015
42
Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place
2016
43
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven
2016
44
Aghast
2016
45
The Madness of Dr. Caligari
2016
46
Best New Horror 27
2017
47
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
2017
48
Looming Low: Volume I
2017
49
Chthonic: Weird Tales of Inner Earth
2018
50
Fright Into Flight
2018
51
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75
2018
52
Best New Horror 29
2019
53
Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom
2019
54
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
2019
55
Behold the Undead of Dracula
2019
56
Apostles of the Weird
2020
57
Not Just a Pretty Face
2020
58
Weird Dream Society
2020
59
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles