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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.

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Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 5d ago

Currently reading: This waited far too long on the to-be-read pile due to other things getting in the way. As ever with Mr Hendrix, this is a gripping tale of strong female characters - in this case unwed teen mothers in '60s America - facing deadly supernatural terrors as well as real life terrors.

Cover of The Sunday Times Bestseller, 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls' by Grady Hendrix.
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · last wk.

Protect creators from the unregulated use of their copyrighted works to train AI to steal their jobs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

petition.parliament.uk

Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · last mo.

This evening's cinema trip: Supergirl, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Darker in tone than last year's Superman, but still massively entertaining, with a terrific central performance from Milly Alcock, and great performances all round.

Poster for DC Studios' Supergirl showing Milly Alcock as the title character.
filmisfabulous!@filmisfabulous.bsky.social · last mo.

Colour Recovered Horror The recently recovered b&w film recording of Late Night Horror, entitled: ‘No Such Thing As A Vampire’, has been subject to the colour recovery process by Richard Russell and Charles Norton.

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Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy 60th anniversary to Dark Shadows, the daytime soap opera that began as a tale of mild gothic intrigue in a Maine fishing village before transforming into an ongoing story of vampires, witches, ghosts, werewolves, warlocks, phoenixes, mad scientists, seances, curses, possession, obsession...

Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Currently reading: Actually just finished this one... Solace House, from the author of the magnificent The Apparition Phase, is another very smart, engaging, atmospheric novel with characters that live and a real sense of time and place, and of dread.

The cover of the novel Solace House by Will Maclean, depicting a large old house which seems to be melting, and from whose walls pre-Raphaelite faces look out.
Sean Flinn@seanflinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“It’s a long way from anywhere…” Just heard that Dave Greenslade has died. Currently greatly enjoying again his superbly witty and inventive scores for A Very Peculiar Practice on BBC4. His work on Gangsters too was brilliant, both of and ahead of its time. “We’ll always love you.” RIP.

Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's 90 years today since M.R. James died. His influence, of course, not only lives on but thrives. And by sheer chance the script I'm working on at this moment is deeply indebted to his work - to one story in particular - and to his legacy as a storyteller.

A portrait photograph of M.R. James - bespectacled and benevolent
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today's arrival. Eureka's new Blu-ray of the earliest Vincent Price film I remember seeing as a kid. Vincent, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Linda Hayden, and Michael Parkinson take up residence in the Madhouse... their host, Doctor Death!

Cover of the Blu-ray of Madhouse, featuring a montage of Vincent Price, a screaming woman, a creepy house, and a skull with a spider crawling on it, and the tagline 'If stark terror were ecstasy... living here would be sheer bliss!'
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

With RTD gone, now we'll never get the answer to such mysteries as why a UNIT helicopter had to drop off the tanker containing Salt to be driven by lorry to UNIT HQ when UNIT HQ has a very prominent heliport sticking out of it.

Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Last night's cinema trip: Obsession, which deserves all of the breakout success it's enjoying. It manages to be both hugely funny and terribly sad, and also effectively scary. A note perfect cast with a central performance from Inde Navarrette that is blisteringly luminous. Fantastic!

Poster for Obsession, written and directed by Curry Barker, with the tagline 'Be careful who you wish for...' Image shows a close up of a staring eye with a love heart shaped pupil.