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Experimental Film
A Horror Novel by Gemma Files
Subgenres:
- Folk Horror,
- Occult Horror,
- Film Industry,
- Historical Mystery,
- Motherhood
This book is for you if you're into...
- Obsessive deep dives into lost film history
- Folk horror that blurs research with supernatural danger
- Stories where motherhood and ambition collide under eerie pressure
From Little Stack
In the midst of a hot Toronto summer, former film teacher Lois Cairns stumbles on a sample piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She discovers that it’s connected to the early work of a woman who disappeared in 1918. Desperate to make her mark on the world, Lois believes that if she can prove this woman was Canada’s first female filmmaker, it will be her chance to make her mark on the film world. But her research doesn’t take her into the dark crevices of shadow but into the blinding nightmare of light.
With nowhere to hide from fairy tales come to life and a noon-demon demanding a price be paid, Lois realizes that whatever happened in 1918 might happen to her.
Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared from a train compartment in 1918.
Hoping to make her own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that Whitcomb was Canada's first female filmmaker. But her research takes her down a path not of darkness but of light—the blinding and searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her heart.
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