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Speaking in Tongues
Detail of the cover of A Book of Tongues.
Bloodthirsty ancient gods, sociopathic sharpshooters, and lone magicians of all stripes vie for supremacy in a deadly battle for power in Gemma Files’ A Book of Tongues, a darkly fantastic tale of the “Weird West” recently published by Toronto’s own ChiZine Press. Files—who was born in England but grew up and lives in Toronto—originally aspired to being a science fiction writer but realized that her knowledge of science was, as she says, “pretty much confined to the biological and the metaphorical.” At around the same time, she discovered horror writers Stephen King and Peter Straub, so feeling the call of the dark side she began to work in the horror/dark fantasy genre. She’s never looked back.
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