Gemma Amor

Gemma Amor is a Bram Stoker 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 featured in Ellen Datlow’s prestigious ‘Best Horror of the Year’ anthology, Vol. 15.

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.