Blood from the Air

by Gemma Files

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Pub Date 17 Oct 2023 | Archive Date 14 Nov 2023

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Description

Angels and insects, holes in the known world’s fabric and what comes out of them, the love of death and the death of love. In award-winning horror author Gemma Files’s seventh collection of short fiction, the numinous and the awful tango together through a collapsing series of not-so-alternate realities, and everyone they touch emerges changed, whether or not they may have wanted to be.

This is fantasy of the darkest sort, horror-cured, marinating in its own transformative juices. So enter a fractured universe of creepy delights, one where the oldest tropes are turned inside out and wrung for their oddest components, as forgotten gods and monsters cavort beneath a storm of BLOOD FROM THE AIR.

Advance Praise

"“Gemma Files’s stories are always so smart and humane, and overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror. She is, simply put, one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today.”

—Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World

“When we speak of the best in contemporary horror and weird fiction, we must speak of Gemma Files.”

—Laird Barron, author of Worse Angels

“Gemma Files has one of the great dark imaginations in fiction—visionary, transgressive, and totally original.”

—Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy

“Nobody in a Gemma Files story puts a hand on a doorknob and opens the door they shouldn’t—these folks are already in the other side. And that’s to my taste.”

—Paula Guran, senior editor for Prime Books