Step inside the fractured minds of Hallwryte’s creations.
Elliot Hallwryte writes upmarket psychological fiction — character-driven, unsettling, and grounded in the domestic spaces where ordinary lives come undone. His work explores the architecture of the mind, the weight of things we refuse to forget, and the impossible choices that love and trauma demands of us.
This is fiction for the moment the floor drops out — precise, psychological, and quietly devastating, where the domestic becomes the unsettling and the everyday becomes the unbearable.
Hello Lily, Love
Novella
~30,000 Words
Lily speaks to her dead mother every day. It sounds like her. It knows her. And she never has to let go.
Upmarket, Psychological, Epistolary, Speculative, Contemporary
The Damask Room
Long-Short Story
~7,000 Words
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, Historical
Is This About the Dog’s Leg Sticking Out of the Ground in the Garden?
Short Story
~2,500 Words
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, Contemporary
The Unremarkable Garden of Beatrice Lily
Novel
~90,000 Words
In Development
Beatrice Lily is, by every reasonable measure, sane. She understands precisely what is happening to her mind, yet chooses to believe in its wonder regardless — because a world without wonder is not worth wondering in.
Upmarket, Psychological, Domestic Gothic, Historical,
1 in 2
Flash Fiction
~1,000 Words
In Development
In a neighbourhood obsessed with appearances, a couple’s quiet, orderly separation feels wrong from the start — too amicable, too methodical, and disturbingly irreversible.
Upmarket, Psychological, Speculative, Contemporary
What to Expect
“I write literary fiction with commercial instincts: psychologically driven, structurally precise, and built to keep a reader turning the page. I use tension, visual clarity, and emotional pressure to make complex interior stories feel immediate and gripping — work that unsettles, resonates, and remains unforgettable.”
— Elliot
Perfect for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan.
Rights & Publication
For manuscript requests and representation enquiries, please contact Elliot Hallwryte directly.