Step inside the fractured minds of Hallwryte’s creations.
Elliot Hallwryte writes upmarket psychological fiction. His work examines the architecture of the mind and the weight of the things we refuse to forget, exploring memory, repression, and the obsessions trauma leaves behind, with the wit and readability of character-driven storytelling grounded in the interior depth of the literary novel.
Hallwryte delivers commercially engaging, upmarket fiction shaped by a modern Gothic of the mind, crafting stories that linger long after the final page.
Hello Lily, Love
Unpublished
Novella
Lily speaks to her dead mother every day. It sounds like her. It knows her. And she never has to let go.
Upmarket, Psychological Drama, Epistolary, Mild Speculative
The Damask Room
Unpublished
Long-Short Story
As dementia steals Sybil Harwood’s memory, the locked room refuses to let her forget what she spent a lifetime hiding.
Upmarket, Psychological Literary Horror
Is This About the Dog’s Leg Sticking Out of the Ground in the Garden?
Unpublished
Short Story
Confronted by a child who uses rigid mathematics and a stuffed fox to rationalise a gruesome discovery in the garden, a psychologist simply listens — daring the reader to decode the structure of trauma hidden within a terrifyingly methodical solution.
Upmarket, Psychological Drama
The Unremarkable Garden of Beatrice Lily
Unpublished
Novel
Beatrice Lily is, by every reasonable measure, sane. Educated against the grain of Regency England, sharp‑minded in a world that prizes women for anything but, she understands precisely what is happening to her: she has read her father’s medical texts and traced, line by line, the failing of her own mind.
The miniature creatures in her walled garden are not real. She knows this, and yet she chooses them. Not because her mother’s hand, faint in the margins of her favourite books, appears to whisper permission from beyond the grave, but because a beautiful, broken mind is a bittersweet tragedy worth keeping — better that than the unbearable flatness of a world without impossible things.
But comfort is not the same as safety. Beneath the garden she has so carefully tended, long‑buried truths linger, intent on returning.
Upmarket, Historical Fiction, Psychological, Contemporary Gothic
About the Author
Elliot Hallwryte writes literary psychological fiction exploring trauma, memory, and the human mind. His work focuses on character-driven narratives set within the domestic and the ordinary. He is currently developing several new projects and seeking literary representation.
Rights & Publication
For manuscript requests and representation enquiries, please contact Elliot Hallwryte directly.