Daniel McGachey
@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social
Writer of comics since 1989, plus radio drama, articles, TV, animation, comedy, mystery, and ghost stories. Occasional illustrator and designer.
It's Krampusnacht! So why not celebrate with a digital edition of last year's Commando Comic Christmas ghost story before the fiend of the festivities comes calling? www.amazon.co.uk/Commando-581...
Commando #5811: Krampusnacht
Commando #5811: Krampusnacht eBook : McGachey, Daniel, Pritchard, Simon, Alacazar, Vicente: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's Krampusnacht! So why not celebrate with a digital edition of last year's Commando Comic Christmas ghost story before the fiend of the festivities comes calling? www.amazon.co.uk/Commando-581...
Pleased to see that the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine features a fleeting guest appearance by M.R. James in the comic strip, 'A Ghost Story for Christmas', a lovely homage to the 1970s BBC films, written by Alan Barnes and drawn by Martin Geraghty.
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Pleased to see that the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine features a fleeting guest appearance by M.R. James in the comic strip, 'A Ghost Story for Christmas', a lovely homage to the 1970s BBC films, written by Alan Barnes and drawn by Martin Geraghty.
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That time in 2014 when the BBC daytime soap 'Doctors' adapted M.R. James's short story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQO...
BBC Doctors: Whistle... (adapted from M.R. James' Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad)
YouTube video by JR Southall
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December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
That time in 2014 when the BBC daytime soap 'Doctors' adapted M.R. James's short story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQO...
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Spooky Advent Day 3: it’s the sanguine soaked standing stone nightmare fuel that is Stigma (GSFC 1977)
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Spooky Advent Day 3: it’s the sanguine soaked standing stone nightmare fuel that is Stigma (GSFC 1977)
Delighted to receive my contributor copies of 'Number 13: Selected Ghost Stories by M.R. James', which I compiled and introduced for Weird House Press, with frontispiece and endpapers by K.L. Turner, and 13 illustrations by M. Wayne Miller. weirdhousepress.com/products/num...
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Delighted to receive my contributor copies of 'Number 13: Selected Ghost Stories by M.R. James', which I compiled and introduced for Weird House Press, with frontispiece and endpapers by K.L. Turner, and 13 illustrations by M. Wayne Miller. weirdhousepress.com/products/num...
Something I'd love to see again. 'The Recordist' (1991) 10 minute film from BBC2's 10x10 series. 'A ghost story for Midsummer's Eve. On the shortest night of the year a sound recordist has a close encounter with the Dark Ages.' With
Bernard Archard & Petra Markham. Directed & written by Neil Grant
Bernard Archard & Petra Markham. Directed & written by Neil Grant
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Something I'd love to see again. 'The Recordist' (1991) 10 minute film from BBC2's 10x10 series. 'A ghost story for Midsummer's Eve. On the shortest night of the year a sound recordist has a close encounter with the Dark Ages.' With
Bernard Archard & Petra Markham. Directed & written by Neil Grant
Bernard Archard & Petra Markham. Directed & written by Neil Grant
Sounds like a must-listen in the midst of ghost story season... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, 20/12/2025
Katherine Rundell unearths the Christmas ghost story.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Sounds like a must-listen in the midst of ghost story season... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I just backed First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium
The Complete History of Horror from the Pages of the #1 Horror Magazine
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November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I just backed First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Today would have been the 100th birthday of the one with the short, fat, hairy legs! Eric gets all the attention, but Ernie was equally as important. As a double act they worked with such perfect unity that, even still, you can't see the join!
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Today would have been the 100th birthday of the one with the short, fat, hairy legs! Eric gets all the attention, but Ernie was equally as important. As a double act they worked with such perfect unity that, even still, you can't see the join!
Number 13: Selected Ghost Stories by M.R. James is part of the Weird House Classics Duo Special offer from Weird House Press. weirdhousepress.com/products/wei...
Weird House Specials!
New Weird House Classics Duo Special! New Jeffrey Thomas Hardcover Holiday Bundle! New Shivers Holiday Special! From October to December 20th you can buy The Sleepy Hollow Gang by Robert P. Ottone sig...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Number 13: Selected Ghost Stories by M.R. James is part of the Weird House Classics Duo Special offer from Weird House Press. weirdhousepress.com/products/wei...
RIP Jack Shepherd, a brilliant Renfield in the BBC's splendid 'Count Dracula' in the 1970s, and seen here in an adaptation of a strange story by Robert Aickman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLit...
The Hospice - Robert Aickman
YouTube video by From the Library of the Late Dr John Rant
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November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
RIP Jack Shepherd, a brilliant Renfield in the BBC's splendid 'Count Dracula' in the 1970s, and seen here in an adaptation of a strange story by Robert Aickman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLit...
Tonight's cinema trip is for this utter masterpiece of the macabre...
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tonight's cinema trip is for this utter masterpiece of the macabre...
Delighted to have a ticket booked for Dundead's 80th anniversary screening of the brilliant anthology horror film that inspired so many that followed in its long shadow, the wonderful 'Dead of Night'.
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Delighted to have a ticket booked for Dundead's 80th anniversary screening of the brilliant anthology horror film that inspired so many that followed in its long shadow, the wonderful 'Dead of Night'.
After a year of waiting, look who turned up in the post today! The Vincent Price Ultimate Action Figure from Neca, complete with interchangeable heads, hands, props, and a pet raven. black cat and skull for company. The little family of Price, Cushing, and Lee figures is complete!
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
After a year of waiting, look who turned up in the post today! The Vincent Price Ultimate Action Figure from Neca, complete with interchangeable heads, hands, props, and a pet raven. black cat and skull for company. The little family of Price, Cushing, and Lee figures is complete!
Seeking something mysterious to read on the darker nights? Looking for a tale of seances and secrets, curses and clues, treasures and terrors, death and deduction? Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Crown may hold just the solution! www.amazon.co.uk/Sherlock-Hol...
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Crown : McGachey, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Crown : McGachey, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Seeking something mysterious to read on the darker nights? Looking for a tale of seances and secrets, curses and clues, treasures and terrors, death and deduction? Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Crown may hold just the solution! www.amazon.co.uk/Sherlock-Hol...
Three Eille Norwood Sherlock Holmes films from the silent era, newly restored by the BFI, to be screened in cinemas around the UK from December 12th. www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-rel...
Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases
In cinemas 12 December.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Three Eille Norwood Sherlock Holmes films from the silent era, newly restored by the BFI, to be screened in cinemas around the UK from December 12th. www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-rel...
Is everyone else getting an Internal Server Error when they try to view their feed or alerts, or is it just my account that's acting up? (Silly question, as how will I know if anyone answers if I can't see my activity? Ah, well...)
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Is everyone else getting an Internal Server Error when they try to view their feed or alerts, or is it just my account that's acting up? (Silly question, as how will I know if anyone answers if I can't see my activity? Ah, well...)
RIP Pauline Collins. Always loved 'Upstairs, Downstairs', and only a few weeks ago I was enjoying repeats of of the charming sitcom 'No, Honestly' on one of the retro TV channels.
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
RIP Pauline Collins. Always loved 'Upstairs, Downstairs', and only a few weeks ago I was enjoying repeats of of the charming sitcom 'No, Honestly' on one of the retro TV channels.
In the wee small hours I stumbled upon an unboxing video for 'Number 13: Selected Ghost Stories by M.R. James', which I edited and introduced for Weird House Press's series of Weird House Classics. (And, no, that's not how you pronounce my surname.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8FY...
Unboxing Number 13: Selected Ghost Stories by M.R. James - Weird House Classics
YouTube video by Too Many Books
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November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In the wee small hours I stumbled upon an unboxing video for 'Number 13: Selected Ghost Stories by M.R. James', which I edited and introduced for Weird House Press's series of Weird House Classics. (And, no, that's not how you pronounce my surname.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8FY...
Boom bloody boom,
Bloody boom, bloody boom,
Bloody boom, bloody boom,
Bloody boom-boom-boom!
Bloody boom, bloody boom,
Bloody boom, bloody boom,
Bloody boom-boom-boom!
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Boom bloody boom,
Bloody boom, bloody boom,
Bloody boom, bloody boom,
Bloody boom-boom-boom!
Bloody boom, bloody boom,
Bloody boom, bloody boom,
Bloody boom-boom-boom!
There's a ghost story from the archives on BBC Four tonight, preceded by an interview with star Emma Thompson and writer/director Paul Murton in which they discuss their love of ghost stories. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Two - Screen Two, The Blue Boy
A couple expecting their first baby spend time in the Highlands, hoping for a fresh start.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There's a ghost story from the archives on BBC Four tonight, preceded by an interview with star Emma Thompson and writer/director Paul Murton in which they discuss their love of ghost stories. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Still Game Book 2 - nine more episodes of the smash hit TV series, adapted to comic form by me, drawn by a bunch of talented artists, and available signed by Jack and Victor themselves, aka Ford and Greg, here... jackandvictor.com/collections/...
Scunnered Ink Stuff
From Osprey Heights in Craiglang, comes a new blended Scotch whisky and exquisite Gin that's been 'filtered through the heather'. Created by master tasters Jack Jarvis, Esq and Victor McDade. They ma...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Still Game Book 2 - nine more episodes of the smash hit TV series, adapted to comic form by me, drawn by a bunch of talented artists, and available signed by Jack and Victor themselves, aka Ford and Greg, here... jackandvictor.com/collections/...
I've been translated! My Commando issue 'Krampusnacht', drawn by Vicente Alcazar, is one of the four issues translated and compiled in the latest issue of this Finnish series, whose title - Korkeajännitys - translates as 'High Voltage' or 'High Excitement'. My reign of terror has gone international!
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I've been translated! My Commando issue 'Krampusnacht', drawn by Vicente Alcazar, is one of the four issues translated and compiled in the latest issue of this Finnish series, whose title - Korkeajännitys - translates as 'High Voltage' or 'High Excitement'. My reign of terror has gone international!
On Hallowe'en, it's good to see that this collection of vintage horror strips that I wrote the introduction and a new comic strip for, has been given a physical release after initially appearing as a digital edition. www.amazon.co.uk/Spellbound-H...
Spellbound (Heritage Comics Presents): Amazon.co.uk: Battle, Georgia Standen, McGachey, Daniel: 9781917436410: Books
Buy Spellbound (Heritage Comics Presents) by Battle, Georgia Standen, McGachey, Daniel (ISBN: 9781917436410) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
On Hallowe'en, it's good to see that this collection of vintage horror strips that I wrote the introduction and a new comic strip for, has been given a physical release after initially appearing as a digital edition. www.amazon.co.uk/Spellbound-H...
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🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster