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In That Endlessness, Our End
In That Endlessness, Our End | Gemma Files
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COME CLOSER, FRIEND. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY. Heard the one about the Airbnb that eats your dreams or the iron-crowned king who preys on his own bloodline from the air, still smoldering centuries after being burnt alive? How about the cloudy antique bottle you can wish your excess rage inside, or that crooked alley down which something waits to replace your disappointing child with a far more pleasant facsimile? We all know the truth, especially in times like these-in an anxiety-ridden, sleepless world such as ours, it's only ever our very worst dreams that come true. Here streets empty out and people pull themselves apart like amoebas, breeding murderous doppelgangers from their own flesh; houses haunt, ideas possess and a cold and alien moon stares down, whispering that it's time to spawn. New myths rise and ancient evils descend. From the seemingly mundane terrors of a city just like yours to all the most dark and distant places of a truly terrible universe, nothing is as it seems...not even that dimly-recalled cinematic memory you've been chasing all these years, the one you think might be just something you stumbled upon while flipping through channels after midnight. The one that still disturbs you enough to raise a cold sweat all over your body, whenever you try to will its details clear. Hot on the heels of her 2018 This Is Horror Award-winning short story collection Spectral Evidence, critically horror author Gemma Files compiles fifteen more of her most startling recent nightmares-a creepily seductive downward spiral of dark poetry and existential dread, entirely suitable to the slow apocalypse going on all around us. So take your mind off your troubles and send it somewhere the rules still operate, if only to punish those who violate them.
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Reggie
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4 people in a writer‘s group, 2 of which are exes who still live together for financial reasons, get together one night to do a writing exercise. They draw a door on a piece of paper. Stare at it, let their eyes unfocus and write for 2 minutes what is on the other side. What they‘ll find out is that they all pictured and wrote the same train tracks leading out into the wilderness. That a man with a black hooded robe and a pale face is walking👇🏼

Reggie towards them. From there the story just gets spookier. This isn‘t even the scariest one in this collection but I thought it was the most fun. Gemma‘s a great writer. Check her out. 2y
TrishB Great review 👍🏻 2y
Twainy Creepy 😁 2y
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Reggie @TrishB I‘m lighting a candle in hopes that one day you‘ll read short stories. 2y
Reggie @Twainy the creep factor is on high the whole way through. 2y
TrishB There‘s always hope 😁 2y
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One of my favorite titles of all time. One of my favorite covers of all time. One of my favorite horror collections of all time. Seriously, check this out ASAP.

BarbaraBB It sounds super creepy. 2y
Yuki_Onna That cover! 🤩 #coverlove 2y
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So earlier this year I got to go to StokerCon in May where I got to nerd out on all these wonderful horror authors I‘ve read this past year. I tried to read the nominees before I went and this was definitely a standout of the bunch. She won for best single author short story collection and deservedly so. If Lovecraft had a long lost great granddaughter, Gemma is her. She writes these threads of sentences that at first seem superfluous. But by👇🏼

Reggie the end, she makes you step back to realize it‘s this tightly woven blanket that she then wraps you in and it‘s itchy and suffocating and so so effing scary. I got to hear her read and she was brilliant. I was in the audience of a panel where 5 authors couldn‘t come up with enough content to fill the hour. Every panel Gemma was in, she could have gone hours and hours by herself. I‘m a huge fan of hers now. 2y
batsy Hi Reggie, it's good to see you back! Hope you've been well 💕 2y
TrishB She sounds awesome. 2y
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Reggie @batsy Hi Suba! Thank you, it‘s good to see you, too! I have been well, thanks for asking. 2y
Reggie @TrishB she is that nerd, in the best way possible. She just had great point after point to talk about. 2y
Rissreads She sounds amazing! 2y
Megabooks So very glad to have you back!! 2y
Reggie @Megabooks Thanks, Meg! 2y
vivastory Gemma's book Experimental Film is the only book that I have ever read that I feel came close to Night Film. Good stuff. I'm curious what other authors did you see at Stoker Con that stood out to you? 2y
Reggie @vivastory V Castro, she read from her new Alien franchise book.The title is Vasquez. She wrote the backstory to the Vasquez character from Aliens. The one who blows herself up in the air shaft. V had a lot to say in her panels she was on. Hailey Piper, Gemma Amor, Sonora Taylor, Steve Rasnic Tem, Eric LaRocca, Brian Keene, Sara Langan, Grady Hendrix, Jeff Strand. Stephen Graham Jones was there for a day before he caught Covid. They all had me 2y
Reggie googly eyed. 2y
vivastory I read Gemma Amor's Dear Laura several months ago and really liked it. I have a book of V Castro's stories checked out from the library right now. I'm really looking forward to it. Sounds like a great time! 2y
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