Jack Gill
Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, UK
Gothic Horror, Supernatural Horror, Domestic Horror
Jack Gill is a debut author from Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, writing gothic and supernatural horror that explores grief, trauma, family and the emotional consequences of encounters with the unexplained.
Biography
Jack is particularly interested in supernatural fiction where ghosts, unexplained events and unsettling encounters act as catalysts for exploring the people experiencing them. His focus is on fear, grief, trauma, relationships and the ways extraordinary experiences can continue to shape ordinary lives long after the initial encounter.
His debut novel, The Man At The Lamp Post, grew from a childhood story told to him by his grandmother, Joyce. The novel’s central character was inspired by her, allowing Jack to develop the fragment of a strange family story into a larger work combining supernatural mystery, family history and emotional drama.
Years after first hearing his grandmother’s story about a strange man standing beneath a lamp post, Jack remembered it while putting his son to bed and began imagining what might have happened if the story had continued. What began as an attempt to bring that unfinished idea to life eventually developed into his first novel.
Jack approaches storytelling instinctively, with an emphasis on atmosphere, character and emotional consequence. He is drawn to supernatural fiction that unsettles not only because of what may be hiding in the shadows, but because of what that darkness does to the people living within it.
Represented Work
The Man At The Lamp Post
Supernatural Horror, Domestic Horror, Haunted House Horror, Gothic Horror
Represented
After years of violence and loss, Joy Carter returns with her daughter, Dinah, to her grandfather’s abandoned house on Wren Street, hoping it will offer them somewhere to rebuild their lives.
Instead, the house begins to stir with memories and disturbances that feel increasingly personal. A shadowed man appears beneath the old lamp post outside. Objects move. Lavender fills rooms with no obvious source. The cellar seems to scratch at night, and the apple tree in the garden carries a history nobody wants to explain.
As Joy begins uncovering a century-old pattern of violence, disappearance and buried family secrets, the haunting tightens around both mother and daughter. When her estranged husband, Henry, returns and starts behaving as though something else may be moving through him, Joy is forced to confront the possibility that the past has not simply survived — it has been waiting.
Combining supernatural horror, domestic trauma and family gothic, The Man At The Lamp Post is a story about inherited fear, the persistence of grief and the damage that can pass from one generation to the next.
Selected Publications
Recognition & Credentials
Writing & Research
Jack writes gothic and supernatural horror, with a particular interest in stories where ghosts or unexplained phenomena act as catalysts for exploring character, grief, trauma, family and emotional aftermath. He is especially drawn to the point where ordinary domestic life is disrupted by the uncanny, and to the ways supernatural experiences continue to affect people after the immediate horror has passed.