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EXPERIMENTAL FILM
From the Black Quill and International Horror Guild Awardwinning author of the Hexslinger series comes a chilling new novel about a film studies professor who unearths a terrifying ghost that threatens to unleash untold horrors if not containedfor fans of David Cronenberg's Videodrome, with the classic feel of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
Fired at almost the same time as her son Clark's Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis, former-film-critic-turned-teacher Lois Cairns is caught in a depressive downward spiral, convinced she's a failure who's spent half her adult life writing about other people's dreams without ever seeing any of her own come true.
One night, however, she attends a program of experimental film and emerges convinced she's seen something no one else hasa sampled piece of silver nitrate silent film footage whose existence might prove that an eccentric early-20th-century socialite who disappeared under mysterious circumstances was also one of Canada's first female movie-makers. But with this discovery, Lois has unleashed a terrifying ghost that threatens to unleash untold horrors if not contained.
GEMMA FILES was born in London, England and raised in Toronto. Her story The Emperor's Old Bones won the 1999 International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Fiction. She has published 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). A Book of Tongues, her first Hexslinger novel, won the 2010 DarkScribe Magazine Black Quill Award for Small Press Chill, in both the Editors' and Readers' Choice categories. The two final Hexslinger novels, A Rope of Thorns and A Tree of Bones, were published by ChiZine Publications in 2011 and 2012.
One night, however, she attends a program of experimental film and emerges convinced she's seen something no one else hasa sampled piece of silver nitrate silent film footage whose existence might prove that an eccentric early-20th-century socialite who disappeared under mysterious circumstances was also one of Canada's first female movie-makers. But with this discovery, Lois has unleashed a terrifying ghost that threatens to unleash untold horrors if not contained.
GEMMA FILES was born in London, England and raised in Toronto. Her story The Emperor's Old Bones won the 1999 International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Fiction. She has published 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). A Book of Tongues, her first Hexslinger novel, won the 2010 DarkScribe Magazine Black Quill Award for Small Press Chill, in both the Editors' and Readers' Choice categories. The two final Hexslinger novels, A Rope of Thorns and A Tree of Bones, were published by ChiZine Publications in 2011 and 2012.
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Published 2015-11-01 by ChiZine |