Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian writer Gemma Files.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.
I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.
I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.
I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with.