JJ CARPENTER
Award-Winning Author
Where horrors linger & forgotten memories persist
Award-winning author, JJ Carpenter, celebrates our personal stories and unearths our hidden histories through thrilling, terrifying tales.
She writes gothic and psychological fiction rooted in Australian history. Her work explores trauma, memory, and survival, often set within haunted places where the past presses uncomfortably into the present.
JJ is proudly queer, feminist, and neurodivergent. She lives with a minor disability and is a DV survivor, but does not let those labels define her.
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“The First House is a terrifying entry into the haunted house genre that rivals the very best. It’s scary, it has heart, and it’s steeped in historic significance — a combination JJ handles with expert precision, solidifying her status as one of Australia’s premier voices in ghost fiction.”
~ Ian Gielen, author of Saving Tommy
Some houses keep secrets. This house keeps you.
Murphy has seen ghosts all her life. She’s not afraid of them.
But at The First House, she should be…
Something has been waiting for her.
And now she’s coming home.
“A twisted, confronting haunted house, drenched in Australia’s dark history. Brace yourself, no one is safe here.”
~ Alan Baxter, multi-award winning author of The Gulp and Sallow Bend
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“JJ Carpenter speaks for the dead… Pure poetry.”
~ Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Mr Lonelyhearts
In this intimate and unflinching collection, JJ Carpenter delves into the psychology of abuse, what trauma does (or undoes) to the soul, and the reality of healing.
Accompanied by haunting original illustrations from award-nominated artist, David Schembri, I Am Haunted is both reckoning and reclamation.
For anyone who has ever carried more than they should, this collection offers a simple truth: some hauntings never end. But neither do we.
“So honest it hurts… It gutted me.”
~ Kaaron Warren, author of The Underhistory
“Part confessional, part exorcism.”
~ Kirstyn McDermott, author of What the Bones Know