Gerald Locke

Stories built around constraint, consequence, and inevitability

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Cover art for the book "Echoes of the Ethereal Nexus: The Pulse Beneath Creation" by Gerald Locke, depicting a man and woman holding hands, standing in a landscape with a glowing celestial event in the sky.
Book cover titled 'Veiled Ascendance: The Pulse of Eternity' by Gerald Locke, depicting a silhouette of a woman ascending amidst clouds, with a glowing light and a planet in the background.
Book cover for "Whispers of the Veiled Realms" by Gerald Locke featuring a male and female character dressed in dark clothing, standing in a mystical landscape with trees, ruins, and a glowing crystal floating between them.

The Veiled Trilogy

Cosmic fantasy where memory, choice, and reality blur as ancient forces strain against the Veil.

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Book cover titled "The Fractured Concord" by Gerald Locke featuring a fantasy landscape with a swirling storm, lightning, and a distant castle.
The cover of a book titled "The Legacy of Flame and Breath" by Gerald Locke, featuring a fantasy landscape with mountains, cliffs, a river, and swirling glowing lines in the sky at sunset or sunrise.
Book cover for 'The Resonant Awakening: The Weight of Discovery' by Gerald Locke. The cover features three fantasy characters: an elf with pointed ears on the left, a red-haired elf in the center with a fiery background, and a lizard-like creature on the right, all dressed in medieval fantasy attire.

The Chronicles of Elifdar

Mythic elemental fantasy set in a world shaped by resonance, legacy, and the enduring cost of power.

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Book cover for 'The Kintsugi Cipher' by Gerald Locke, showing a silhouette of a woman standing in front of a city skyline with lightning in the sky at night.
Book cover titled 'The Inborn Heresy' by Gerald Locke, depicting a dark cityscape background with two characters, a woman with long hair and a man with short hair, both with serious expressions. The man is in the foreground with glowing energy at his fists.

The Solomon Arcanum

Urban fantasy hidden beneath modern life — sigils, severance, and the forbidden truth of the Ancestors.

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Book cover for 'The Silversmith' by Gerald Locke featuring a dark, ominous scene with a shadowy figure inside a gilded frame, chandeliers hanging in the background, and a dimly lit room.

A relentless killer emerges from mirrors to hunt the vain and “perfect” the flaws he sees in them.

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Meet Gerald Locke

Gerald Locke writes fiction structured around closed systems, procedural escalation, and outcomes governed by constraint rather than intervention. His work spans horror, speculative fiction, and fantasy, and is unified by an interest in systems that remain intact after revelation.

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