{"product_id":"we-will-all-go-down-together-9781504063920","title":"We Will All Go Down Together","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A vivid, haunting mix of horror and fantasy woven together through a complex fugue of short stories\" from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eKissing Carrion\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of Canada'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--though few can really afford their price . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"What makes \u003ci\u003eWe Will All Go Down Together\u003c\/i\u003e so riveting isn't its ideas or imagery, as richly atmospheric and detailed as they are. It's the author'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.\" --NPR.org \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Gemma Files\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Gemma Files'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.\" --Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Head Full of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of the genre's most original and innovative voices.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGemma Files, a former film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and teacher, has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work; two chapbooks of speculative poetry; the \"weird western\" Hexslinger Series; a story-cycle; and the standalone novel \u003ci\u003eExperimental Film\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst Award for Best Adult Novel. Files also has several story collections and a collection of poetry forthcoming.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media Science \u0026 Fantasy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50860509495570,"sku":"9781504063920","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6431f47f-5537-479b-8864-488f6a612ff9.jpg?v=1737575606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-will-all-go-down-together-9781504063920","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}