Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases
Daniel McGachey grew up in Kilsyth, a small town on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland. A steady diet ofDr. Who,2000 A.D.comic strips, Rathbone and Bruce, and later Brett, Burke and Hardwicke as Holmes and Watson, and the films of Hammer and Amicus left him with an abiding love of the frightening, fantastical and mysterious that would lead him to the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nigel Kneale, and the pleasing terrors of M.R. James.He relocated to Dundee in 1989, where he works in publishing, having written scripts for some well-loved children's comic strip characters, more recently focusing on digital media and animation.His ghost stories have appeared inThe BHF Book of Horror Stories, andBlack Book of Horrorseries of anthologies, andFilthy Creationsmagazine, while his radio plays have been broadcast as part of the syndicated mystery and suspense seriesImagination Theatre. He is also a regular contributor of reviews of television and radio adaptions of M.R. James's ghost stories toThe Ghosts and Scholars M.R. James Newsletter.His first collection,They That Dwell in Dark Places and Other Ghost stories, was published by Dark Regions Press.