Spectral Evidence

By: Gemma Files

Narrated by: Joel Froomkin, Hillary Huber, Zura Johnson, Nancy Peterson, Andrew Eiden, Chelsea Stephens, Neil Hellegers, Andrew Gibson

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award–winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently served up tale after tale celebrating monstrosity in all its forms: the imperfect, the broken, the beautifully alien, and the sadly familiar. Her characters make their own choices and take their own chances, slipping from darkness into deeper darkness yet never losing their humanity—not even when they’re anything but.

An embittered blood-servant plots revenge against the vampires who own him; a little girl’s best friend seeks to draw her into an ancient, forbidden realm; two monster-hunting sisters cross paths with an amoral holler-witch again and again, battling both mortal authorities and immortal predators. From the forgotten angels who built the cosmos to the reckless geniuses whose party drug unleashes a plague, madness, monsters and murder await at every turn. And in “The Speed of Pain,” sequel to the International Horror Guild Award–winning story “The Emperor’s Old Bones,” we find that even those who can live forever can’t outrun their own crimes …

Following in the footsteps of her critically praised Kissing Carrion, The Worm in Every Heart, and We Will All Go Down Together, this is the first of two new Gemma Files collections from Trepidatio Publishing, bringing together nine of her best stories from the past ten years. So whether you’re returning to Files’ dark dreamlands or visiting for the first time, we advise you to get ready to review the Spectral Evidence.

©2018 Gemma Files (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

New writer for me and an Anthology of Horror !

Never had heard of the writer and while looking for a horror anthology in October 24 I got into this one and it didn't disappoint. There were many things i'd like to see made into production and the imagination and writing was fantastic. Don't know why there weren't more exposure for the author.I will certainly be paying more attention to them and picking up more titles they wrote.