Gerald J Tate is a Northern Irish horror writer, and former aircraft engineer.

His first book, Cappawhite, was released in 2006, and re-edited in 2009.

The followup, Beyond the Forest's Edge, came next, with both books winning Editors Choice, Book of the year Awards for 2007 & 2008 with Allbooks review of Canada. He then brought out Hot Sand, Cool Sea, an anthology of short stories. His book From Sparta, was released on Oct 2009. From Sparta was short-listed for Book of the year 2010 with Spinetinglers publishing.

The final part of the Cappawhite trilogy, Dead Village was published in 2011.