About Me & Awards

I’m Gemma Amor and I write horror fiction

Gemma Amor is a Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award Nominated horror author, illustrator, voice actor and podcaster, based in Bristol, in the UK. She was named one of the ‘Writers Shaping Horror’s Next Golden Age‘ by Esquire Magazine, and recently featured in Ellen Datlow’s prestigious ‘Best Horror of the Year’ anthology, Vol. 15 and 17.

She works with indie presses, self-publishes on Amazon and is published via traditional means (she considers herself a hybrid author for those reasons). She writes genre-fluid, emotional and character-driven horror, speculative and other genre fiction.  

Gemma self-published her debut short story collection CRUEL WORKS OF NATURE in 2018, and went on to release DEAR LAURA, GRIEF IS A FALSE GOD, WHITE PINES, GIRL ON FIRE, THESE WOUNDS WE MAKE, WE ARE WOLVES and SIX ROOMS before signing her first traditional publishing deal for her novel FULL IMMERSION, published by Angry Robot books in 2022. This was followed by THE ONCE YELLOW HOUSE, CHRISTMAS AT WHEELDALE INN and THE FOLLY in 2023 (originally Polis books, re-released by Datura) and ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST.

An anthology of ancestral horror for Titan Books called ROOTS OF MY FEARS, edited by Gemma, was released in 2025 and subsequently nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology. Her latest novel releases are ITCH!, from Hodder and Stoughton, and FIRST DATE, from Datura. Her next announced book is novella HAPPY HOUR, from Shortwave Books.

Gemma is the co-creator of horror-comedy podcast Calling Darkness, starring Kate Siegel, and her stories feature many times on popular horror anthology shows The NoSleep Podcast (including a six part adaptation of DEAR LAURA), Shadows at the Door, Creepy, The Hidden Frequencies and The Grey Rooms. She has also hosted Pseudopod a few times. She has appeared in a number of print anthologies and had made numerous podcast appearances to date.

A short film she co-wrote called HIDDEN MOTHER (2022) was well received at multiple film festivals and she is currently working on her first feature length screenplay.

Gemma illustrates her own works and also provides original, hand-painted artwork for book covers on commission. She narrates audiobooks too, including THE POSSESSION OF NATALIE GLASGOW by Hailey Piper, in 2020, and FULL IMMERSION in 2022.

She has a background in Marketing, which some will say is irrefutable proof of no soul. 

Keep up to date with her general musings on Gemma Amor’s blog.   

Gemma is represented by Becky LeJeune at Confluence Literary Agency and Sean Berard for film rights.

Awards

Gemma Amor Shirley Jackson Award nominee
gemma amor bram stoker award nominee

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