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The Worm in Every Heart

Name: The Worm in Every Heart
Brand: Shortwave
Price: 39.75 AUD
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Stories

By: Gemma Files

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Paperback | 8 September 2026

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Paperback

Dimensions(cm)
20.96 x 13.97

Paperback

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Available: 8th September 2026

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Finally back in print! The second collection from Gemma Files, the multi-time Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winning author of Experimental Film, and whose stories "overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror" (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World).

"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." (Paula Guran in Horror Garage) The inhabitants of the stories in The Worm in Every Heart include gods and madmen, arsonists and ancient vampires, monsters and mothers who don't know how to love. No matter where they live—Warsaw during World War II, British India, or modern-day Toronto—their realities are not our own, but ones in which we'll willingly immerse ourselves for a terrifying moment or two...

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