PENTLOCKIN

Complete at 75,000 words - representation and film-rights inquiries welcome.

A standalone novel within the The Gallows Man mythos.

Cain Quillman

     Cain Quillman is a psychological horror author and narrative architect. His stories combine folklore, trauma, and emotional realism to create horror that lingers long after the final page.

     Influenced by Stephen King’s truth under pressure and Chuck Palahniuk’s craft of narrative misdirection, Cain writes with precision and cinematic intent. His background in marketing gives him a structural awareness of pacing, payoff, and how stories live beyond the page.

     Beyond fiction, he has published memoirs exploring fear, survival, and transformation. Those experiences give his horror its heart, grounding the supernatural in human truth. His aim is simple: to write stories that haunt, resonate, and demand to be read twice.

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PENTLOCKIN

A Story of The Gallows Man

Complete at 75,000 words - representation and film-rights inquiries welcome.

A standalone novel within the The Gallows Man mythos.


Pentlockin A psychological horror that traps its reader inside an urban legend.

Brynn Evesham questions the dead.

Her mother, gone for years. Her favourite aunt, buried only days ago.

And now, Walter Crimp, the former...

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THE SILENT BAMBOO

A Story of The Gallows Man

A standalone novel within the The Gallows Man mythos.

THE SILENT BAMBOO- (BEING WRITTEN)

Buried alive for stammering, young Walter Crimp survives through a hollow bamboo reed — a cruel lesson in silence that shapes everything he becomes.

Raised in a home ruled by fear and obedience, his only comfort is a tattered stuffed rabbit and the fractured...

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CONTAGION

A Story of The Gallows Man

A standalone novel within the The Gallows Man mythos.

CONTAGION - (IN DEVELOPMENT)


The legend survived Pentlockin.

Now it spreads.

A coded ritual begins circulating online — whispered in forums, buried in comments, shared in private messages. A name. A time. A command.

Summon him.

Two strangers, unaware of each other, attempt the same summoning for...

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