By No Mortal Hand: And Other Ghost Stories

Ancient windows look out onto nightmarish scenes, bizarre clocks chime out hidden hours in which the dead walk, spectral forms haunt moonlit forests and distant shorelines, curious books conceal horrifying contents, and hideous secrets, monstrous fates, and creeping, crawling terrors are dredged up from their unhallowed resting places!

Whether it's through the reminiscences of Dr Lawrence, a folklorist unable to escape the dark shadows of his own uncanny speciality...

or in a trio of sequels and prequels to the classic works of the father of the modern ghost story, M.R. James...
or by delving into the stories and strange legacy of one of Dr James's more obscure and long-forgotten contemporaries...
BY NO MORTAL HAND is a collection of antiquarian ghost stories that pays tribute to a golden age of supernatural storytelling.

Originally published as a limited edition in 2018, this expanded re-issue contains a recently rediscovered 'lost' story by that 'neglected contemporary of M.R. James', Dr H.S. Grace.

...a fine example of Jamesian ghostly fiction... McGachey has an enviable imagination, and has come up with some very interesting variations on the antiquarian ghost story.
David Longhorn: SUPERNATURAL TALES BLOG

...a neat progression... from 'tribute' to original exercise to sophisticated engagement with the tradition of the Jamesian ghost story.
Andy Sawyer: GHOSTS & SCHOLARS

...surely no fan of Jamesian fiction will want to be without By No Mortal Hand.
Rosemary Pardoe: GHOSTS & SCHOLARS