Chilling Short Story Anthologies & Collections to Read This Halloween—And Beyond

This book from one of Canada’s leading horror writers is equal parts short story collection and fragmented novel. In a series of separate yet interconnected stories, she tells the tale of five clans forced to flee Scotland for practicing witchcraft.

The Five-Family Coven, as they come to be known, settle in the sleepy town of Dourvale, Ontario, where they survive using the very powers that cast them from their native land. 

Dark magic, bloody vendettas, forbidden intimacy, and a world-ending evil all claw at balance the five families have so carefully managed to create over the centuries.

Gemma Files weaves together disparate tales across generations of these witches, building toward one terrifying culmination.