We Will All Go Down Together

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A vivid, haunting mix of horror and fantasy woven together through a complex fugue of short stories from the award-winning author of Kissing Carrion (Entertainment Weekly).

One of Canadas most acclaimed horror writers, Gemma Files presents a mosaic of interconnected stories about interconnected families. After fleeing Scotland, five clans settled in the fictional town of Dourvale in northern Ontario. Known as the Five-Family Coven, they are the descendants of witches and witch-children, none of whom were spared persecution in their native country. Now shamans, spellcasters, singers, and thieves, the members of the Devize, Druir, Glouwer, Roke, and Rusk families survive by trading their occult powers and talentsthough few can really afford their price ...

What makes We Will All Go Down Together so riveting isnt its ideas or imagery, as richly atmospheric and detailed as they are. Its the authors voice. Colorful, powerful, and charismatic, her characters are rendered in bold strokes and poignant nuances.... Her book is a short-story collection, true, but it also works as a dark, fractured mosaic of a novel. Across continents and centuries, the ghost-magic of Dourvale still cuts and pastes the fabric of reality. With her ghostly, magical storytelling, Files does the same. NPR.org

Praise for Gemma Files

Gemma Filess 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, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts

One of the genres most original and innovative voices. Los Angeles Review of Books

Author Bio

Gemma Files, a former film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and teacher, has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work; two chapbooks of speculative poetry; the weird western Hexslinger Series; a story-cycle; and the standalone novel Experimental Film, which won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst Award for Best Adult Novel. Files also has several story collections and a collection of poetry forthcoming.