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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

New arrivals to the collection; From when Robert Stephens returned to the role of Holmes in 1975 in the revival of the William Gillette play, with his Private Life of Sherlock Holmes co-star, Clive Revill, as Moriarty at one stage of the run.

Two issues of Playbill from Broadhurst Theatre, both for the play Sherlock Holmes. One cover shows Robert Stephens as Holmes with Clive Revill as Moriarty pointing a gun at the detective's head. The other has Stephens alone as Holmes.
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hitting the shops next Thursday, my first non-horror Commando issue introduces the intrepid Captain Starblaze, star of comic books and movie serials, and the not quite so intrepid man behind the star-spangled hero's mask...

Cover of Commando issue 5999, shows a burning comic book lying among bullet shells, with a side panel showing a movie set with flying saucers dangling from wires. The comic is titled captain Starblaze, and its cover shows superheoes Captain Starblaze and Miss Miraculous flying through space, with the caption 'Can our heroes evade the deadly red menace?'
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 3w ago

A very welcome addition to my small but growing theatrical Holmes memorabilia collection, the programme for The Secret of Sherlock Holmes at Wyndhams Theatre, signed by Holmes and Watson themselves, Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke!

Cover of the programme for The Secret of Sherlock Holmes at Wyndhams Theatre. There is no illustration, just the text, and the price, 60p.The centre spread of programme for The Secret of Sherlock Holmes by Jeremy Paul. One page gives the cast and production credits. The other is a photograph of Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Watson. This is signed (as far as I can tell) 'Evelyn & Mark, Love, Jeremy Brett', and, 'Best wishes, Edward Hardwicke'.
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 4w ago

The perfect soundtrack to my current writing activities. One of them - Sherlock Holmes: Classic Themes From 221B Baker Street - has been serving that purpose for almost 30 years, having accompanied the writing of the play that eventually led to the novel, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Crown.

Six Sherlockian CDs. Compilation album, Sherlock Holmes: Classic Themes from 221B Baker Street, David Arnold & Michael Price's music for Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, John Addison's soundtrack to The Seven-Per-Cent-Solution, the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra recording of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Miklos Rozsa's soundtrack to The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and Patrick Gowers' music from the Granada Television Sherlock Holmes series.
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · last mo.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate a hidden world of deadly curses and shadowy seances, bizarre legends, dazzling treasures, and loathsome creatures in these two volumes: The Devil's Crown and The Impossible Cases.

Cover images of two books by Daniel McGachey. Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases, available in hardback, paperback and on Kindle via Amazon, and whose cover shows a silhouette of Holmes looking through a magnifying glass at a bloodstained Baker Street on a Victorian map, and Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Crown, available in hardback from Weird House Press, also available in paperback and on Kindle. Cover shows a veiled skull with a spider crawling from its eye socket, while an elaborate gold crown with rubies and diamonds sits atop the skull. Under the heading Sherlock Holmes versus Supernatural Horror, there are two review quotes. '...they are every inch Doyle's characters... Atmospheric, intriguing, suspenseful...' by Michael Galley, author of Dracula, Frankenstein and Friends, and ‘...deserves praise for honouring Holmes and respecting Watson’s writing.’ by Sheila Merritt in Hellnotes.
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · last mo.

As is customary on the day that marks both the great Freddie Jones's birth and the great Jeremy Brett's far too young death, I shall observe both occasions with a viewing of 'Wisteria Lodge' from Granada's 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'.

Jeremy Brett as an amused Sherlock Holmes, and Freddie Jones as Inspector Baynes, who is taking a sweet from a paper bag, in a still from Wisteria Lodge.
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · last mo.

No idea how significant - if at all - these rankings are without context, but it's nice to see that after their first day out my two ghost story collections are in the Top 30 for Horror Collections & Anthologies, and The Impossible Cases is currently Number 1 in Sherlock Holmes Mysteries.

Amazon Best Seller rankings showing By No Mortal Hand at number 28 and They That Dwell in Dark Places at 29 in the Horror Collections & Anthologies category.Amazon Best Sellers rankings showing Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases at number 1 in the category of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, with The Hound of the Baskervilles at 2 and The Sign of the Four at 3.
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm pleased to announce that today sees the reissue of my three supernatural story collections in newly revised and expanded editions, in hardback, paperback, and on Kindle. Jamesian tales of antiquarian dread, and Holmesian adventures in the shadowy realms of the uncanny await.

Cover images for three books by Daniel McGachey under the heading Scholars, Scribes, Spectres & Sleuths. The books are They That Dwell in Dark Places, whose cover shows a ghostly hand reaching out through red curtains, By No Mortal Hand, which shows a curled hand nestling like a spider in a web, and Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases, whose cover shows a silhouette of Holmes looking through a magnifying glass at a bloodstained Baker Street on a Victorian map. All three books are now available in paperback, hardback, and on Kindle.
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · last mo.

Amazon waited till the due delivery date to email and say they were experiencing delays in delivering 'For the Dead Remember': 'Now Arriving Tuesday, 29 September 2026 - Friday, 30 October 2026'. So thank goodness for Blackwell's instead.

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

Happy tae say that Still Game Book 3, with scripts adapted tae comics by me, an' with some right brilliant artwork, is noo available tae order! Aye! Get tore intae it! www.officialstillgame.com

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

This time last week I was writing something Sherlock Holmes related for one medium. This week I'm writing something Sherlock Holmes related for another medium. And this time next week, I expect to be writing something Sherlock Holmes related for a third medium.

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

Two-thirds of my way through series two of 'Bookish', and it has an audaciousness to it - as well as a depth of heart and humanity - that puts me in mind of 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes', and given my love for that film, there's no higher compliment I could give.

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

Tim Curry exploded into my life via my first viewing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at age 14, and it was like a meteorite strike. That film, and that performance, turned my head and opened my eyes, and got me out of my seat and dancing... and I, as a rule, don't dance!

Tim Curry in mid-song as Dr Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Daniel McGachey@daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Goodies live on in print, and I'm delighted that these novellas (for which I've supplied covers, illustrations, and the odd... make that VERY odd... gag) are to get a wider release. Yum, and indeed, yum! www.amazon.co.uk/Goodies-Aven...

The Goodies - Avengers Dissemble: Featuring Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor: Amazon.co.uk: Eaton-Jones, Barnaby, Lumley, Dame Joanna: 9781739787905: Books

Buy The Goodies - Avengers Dissemble: Featuring Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor by Eaton-Jones, Barnaby, Lumley, Dame Joanna from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a...

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