7 must-read paranormal books like Experimental Film by Gemma Files

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Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois …

"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsule, becoming a static window into a particular moment of a particular era."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsule, becoming a static window into a particular moment of a particular era."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

If you liked the paranormal plot in Experimental Film by Gemma Files , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's Wylding Hall book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • ghosts
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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2. Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more

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  • film
  • canada
  • ghosts
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

Cover of The Croning by Laird Barron

3. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Croning book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

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4. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Fisherman book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

5. Haunted Nights

By: John Langan , Kelley Armstrong , Seanan McGuire , Pat Cadigan , Jeffrey Ford , Garth Nix , Jonathan Maberry , Brian Evenson , Ellen Datlow , Stephen Graham Jones , Lisa Morton , John R. Little , Paul Kane , Eric J. Guignard , Kate Jonez , Elise Forier Edie , None , None

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Hal… read more

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6. Last Days

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.75

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Last Days book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

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7. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

Similar categories in Kathe Koja's The Cipher book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

8. The Werewolf of Paris

By: Guy Endore

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

In a work that strives to do for werewolves what Stoker's Dracula did for vampires, Endore's werewo… read more

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9. Ancient Images

By: Ramsey Campbell

4.60

Format: 200 pages,

A colleague's violent death and its apparent cause - a stolen copy of an old, never-released Karlof… read more

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Cover of The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) by Stephen Graham Jones

10. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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11. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • ghosts
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

12. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. La masacre de Kruguer

By: Luciano Lamberti

3.79

Format: 208 pages, ebook

En el pequeño pueblo de montaña de Kruguer cada 26 de junio se realiza la Fiesta de la Nieve: ante … read more

Similar categories in Luciano Lamberti's La masacre de Kruguer book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Harriet

By: Elizabeth Jenkins

4.14

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

When a handsome, unscrupulous fortune hunter approaches Harriet, a young woman of means whom most p… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Jenkins's Harriet book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Sefira and Other Betrayals by John  Langan

15. Sefira and Other Betrayals

By: John Langan

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 1614981922 (ISBN13: 9781614981923) John Langan’s new book is c… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Sefira and Other Betrayals book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The dread, blank as water, was that she had not yet heard the worst of Victoria's story, a groundless anxiety that, the instant she recognized it, she knew was true."

-John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals

Cover of The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5) by Laird Barron

16. The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)

By: Laird Barron

4.31

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new… read more

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  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John  Langan

18. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. White Pines

By: Gemma Amor

3.83

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

A woman, returning to her roots. A town, built on sacred land. A secret, cloaked in tradition and l… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When had it become such a titanic, colossal struggle to simply exist as a normal, functioning human being?"

-Gemma Amor, White Pines

"My recent loss was too fresh, too sharp. I couldn’t cut myself on the edges of it. Not again. Not right now."

-Gemma Amor, White Pines

"So this is what it’s like when someone you love dies, I thought. Like constantly trying to swallow a sharp stone."

-Gemma Amor, White Pines

"People need something tangible to attach their grief to. There is no comfort to be taken from wide open spaces full of nothing."

-Gemma Amor, White Pines

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20. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Gemma Files's Experimental Film

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper

21. A Light Most Hateful

By: Hailey Piper

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

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