Drawn Up From Deep Places

IF YOU GO DOWN DEEP ENOUGH YOU FIND ALL SORTS OF THINGS . . . . In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing award-winning author Gemma Files takes her readers on journeys out beyond safe bordersfrom the trackless depths of the sea to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown behind the paper-thin curtains of reality lurk monsters both human and ancient: selkies and avenging revenants voodoo priestesses and pirate sorcerers ghosts and vampires and the most famous murderer of all time. But however strange the things found in these deep places what draws them up and calls them back are forces the human heart knows all too well: grief and vengeance rage and loss . . . and most terrible of all love.Published over the past fifteen yearssome only available online until nowthese fantasies of the darkest kind showcase the breadth and scope of Gemma Filess imagination seamlessly blending styles genres themes and atmospheres into a dark and thrilling voice like nothing else in fiction today. Newcomers and old friends both are invited to join her in these journeys . . . if they dare to look upon what has been DRAWN UP FROM DEEP PLACES