Short stories by Gemma Files

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.

Listing 6 stories.

A woman notices a decrepit house moving closer to hers and decides to investigate it with her friends.

A team of female scientists excavate an ancient burial site located off of Lake Superior. Uncovering inhuman remains, they begin to question if the human bones were simply decorations for the tombs of something far more sinister.

A young girl seduces a man into her haunted house, where a humanoid governess with a dark side threatens the young girl and the man's safety.

A woman hired to be a caretaker for two Airbnb properties finds herself in charge of an eerie newly constructed condo

A mother with a haunted past fears her six-year-old daughter is not fully human and wishes she would leave.

A sociopath joins an all women's cult so that she can satiate her desire to kill men. However, she begins to be convinced of the beliefs that the rest of the women preach and follow religiously.