Shortlisted for the 2022 British Fantasy Horror Award.  What can you do when you’re reeling from trauma but you’ve tried it all? Counselling, yoga, pills, meditation, art, healthy living… none of it makes a dent. What’s left? Magpie is out of ideas. She’s desperate enough to try anything. Just when she thinks her life can get no worse, she discovers herself, or rather her own dead body, partially buried in the mudbank of a river. A man stands by, a familiar stranger. What does he want? And why can’t she remember getting here? Why can’t she remember anything? Unbeknownst to her, two pairs of eyes watch from behind an observation screen, in a room filled with computers and sensors. An experiment is unfolding, but is Magpie the subject, or practitioner? Reality becomes a slippery concept. And beyond the glass is something worse still: a hint of an outline, shaped in darkness… Magpie realises all too soon that her journey has transformed from healing to survival. She must become the hunter rather than the hunted, with her missing memories the prey. In turn brutal, beautiful and absolutely terrifying, Full Immersion is the latest speculative horror from Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Gemma AmorFile Under: Horror Fantasy [ Silhouette | Suspension | Bristol | Motherhood ] **Content Warnings** suicidal ideation​​; post-natal depression; implied acts of violence towards a child; birth scene

"As empowering as it is powerful."
"It pulls no punches, asks for no quarter, and will leave you breathless. I loved it.” 
“Gemma delivers! She has the ability to make your heart race.” 
“A brave, timely and important book.”
"An intricately crafted and superbly rendered vision of horror-fantasy from one of the genre's most brilliant and devastating voices."
"Amor's writing is tense and sharp, reminiscent of Kealan Patrick Burke, Jeanette Winterson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Fans of both psychological and body horror will find much to enjoy here!"
"A harrowing inward odyssey."
"Full Immersion is nothing less than a klaxon call confirming one of the most daring and fearless voices in contemporary fiction."
"It’s shocking and unnerving and heartbreaking"
"An important, timely story."
"I felt every word."
"a bleak but powerful portrait of survival at any cost."
"A creepy, unsettling narrative, with strong shades of Sarah Pinborough."
"fiercely thought-provoking"
"Overall, a powerful and challenging work."
"Gemma Amor has taken on a considerable challenge here... and she's succeeded."
"This a novel that will stay with you"
"leaves such an indelible impact on the reader"
"If you’re looking for a speculative fiction story about the effects of trauma that’s honest, inventive, and emotionally true, you won’t do better than Full Immersion."
"Masterful"
"It reads like the best episode of Black Mirror that Charlie Brooker hasn’t yet made."

Gemma Amor is a Bram Stoker Award nominated author, illustrator and voice actor. Her happy place is horror, speculative and dark fiction, or anything that blurs the boundaries of genre with a focus on human stories. Many of her works have been adapted into audio dramas by the popular NoSleep Podcast. She is also the co-creator, writer and voice actor for horror-comedy podcast Calling Darkness. She is also an audiobook narrator and painter. She lives in Bristol, England.