<div>&ldquo;A vivid, haunting mix of horror and fantasy woven together through a complex fugue of short stories&rdquo; from the award-winning author of Kissing Carrion (Entertainment Weekly). One of Canada&rsquo;s 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 talents&mdash;though few can really afford their price . . . &ldquo;What makes We Will All Go Down Together so riveting isn&rsquo;t its ideas or imagery, as richly atmospheric and detailed as they are. It&rsquo;s the author&rsquo;s 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.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR.org Praise for Gemma Files &ldquo;Gemma Files&rsquo;s 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.&rdquo; &mdash;Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts &ldquo;One of the genre&rsquo;s most original and innovative voices.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Review of Books</div>

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<div>The World Fantasy Award Finalist: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s Clive Barker crossed with Tanith Lee set to a Siouxsie and the Banshees beat, and I loved every second of it.&rdquo; &mdash;Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award&ndash;winning author of Experimental Film Welcome to a world of monsters, ghosts, and witches, both seductive and terrifying. In the first collection of short fiction from the author of the Necromancer Chronicles, reality shifts and shimmers with potent magic. More than twenty works, including two poems, feature characters who will steal your heart just as easily as your soul. In &ldquo;Wrack,&rdquo; a fisherman becomes so enchanted by a mermaid that the call of the waves becomes impossible to resist. When a killer comes to &ldquo;Dogtown,&rdquo; he learns that his bark isn&rsquo;t worse than the bites of the locals. A dying artist returns to Ireland, where the faerie she has always loved tempts her with eternal life, as long as she leaves her humanity on the shore like so much &ldquo;Flotsam.&rdquo; And in &ldquo;Smoke &amp; Mirrors,&rdquo; the circus comes to a town strangely bereft of ghosts, thanks to a demonic being conducting a train to the netherworld. With prose that is &ldquo;gently pulling, promising beautifully cold oblivion in smothering darkness,&rdquo; Amanda Downum transports you to sweltering southern swamps and the labyrinthine streets of Old World cities, proving without a doubt that &ldquo;she&rsquo;s one of the very best dark fantastical writers working today&rdquo; (Bracken MacLeod, author of Closing Costs). &ldquo;Ethereal, atmospheric, and mysterious.&rdquo; &mdash;Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of Machine &ldquo;These stories range from the melancholic to the downright chilling, and deftly evoke both the truly strange and the very human.&rdquo; &mdash;Liz Bourke, author and reviewer for Tor.com and Locus</div>

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<div>&ldquo;Readers who know Lovecraft&rsquo;s legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) Here are nineteen Lovecraftian stories&mdash;both new and rediscovered&mdash;that take their cues from the mythos of the iconic horror writer. Today&rsquo;s masters of supernatural thrills celebrate H. P. Lovecraft&rsquo;s oeuvre with tales of weird fiction and cosmic horror, collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning editor Ellen Datlow. In &ldquo;Commencement&rdquo; by Joyce Carol Oates, a university begins its annual ceremony of renewal with three renowned scholars whose lifetime achievements are fodder for the student body. A couple desperate to have another child turn to the darkest rituals of folklore and mythology in &ldquo;Catch Hell&rdquo; by Laird Barron. And Holly Phillips&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cold Water Survival&rdquo; trails a group of Antarctic explorers who encounter vast, unexplainable shapes in the ice&mdash;a danger to humanity awakening from its frozen slumber. Rounding out the collection are more spinetingling tales from Brian Evenson, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Marc Laidlaw, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, Richard Bowes, Anna Tambour, Amanda Downum, Joel Lane, William Browning Spencer, Michael Cisco, Lavie Tidhar, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Michael Shea, Gemma Files, and Nick Mamatas.</div>

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