English screenwriter and novelist
Stephen Gallagher (born 13 October 1954) is an English screenwriter and novelist. Gallagher was born in Salford, Greater Manchester .
Career
Gallagher has written novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series Doctor Who — for which he wrote two serials, Warriors' Gate (1981) and Terminus (1983)—as well as for the series Rosemary & Thyme and Bugs , for two seasons of which he was script consultant along with Brian Clemens . He adapted his own novel Chimera as a 90-minute dramatized audio drama for BBC Radio 4 in 1985,[ 1] and as a miniseries of the same name that was shown on ITV in 1991. He also directed the miniseries adaptation of Oktober , as well as writing the feature-length episode The Kingdom of Bones for the BBC series Murder Rooms .
He created and wrote a science-based series for ITV, Eleventh Hour , starring Patrick Stewart as a government science investigator and advisor. The programme was rumoured to be ITV's answer to the new series of Doctor Who , but was more in the tradition of the hard-science thriller. Gallagher's series format was acquired for a US television remake by the CSI trio of CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer and director Danny Cannon . The series aired on CBS and starred Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton .
Life Line , broadcast in 2007, was a two-part supernatural mystery starring Ray Stevenson , Joanne Whalley and Jemima Rooper . Gallagher was later lead writer and story supervisor on NBC's 13-part series Crusoe , screened in 2008/2009, and contributed two episodes to the US version of Eleventh Hour including Medea , the season finale. In 2009 he served as Co-Executive Producer on Bruckheimer's crime show The Forgotten , starring Christian Slater . Legacy , a two-part story for season 16 of the BBC's Silent Witness , was Best Drama winner in the 2013 European Science TV and New Media Awards. He later wrote episodes of Stan Lee's Lucky Man .
Bibliography
Novels
Original
Omnibus
Novelizations
Non-fiction
Journeyman: The Art of Chris Moore – 2000
Screenplays
Radio and Audio
The Last Rose of Summer – 1977 (6x30’, Piccadilly Radio)
Hunters’ Moon – 1978 (8x30, Piccadilly Radio)
The Humane Solution – 1979 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre )
The Babylon Run – 1979 (4x30, Piccadilly Radio)
An Alternative to Suicide – 1979 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre )
A Resistance to Pressure – 1980 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre )
Chimera – 1985 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre )
The Kingston File – 1987 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre )
The Wonderful Visit – 1988 (45’, H. G. Wells adaptation, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Theatre)
By the River, Fontainebleau – 1988 (30’, BBC Radio 4 Fear on Four)
The Horn – 1989 (30’, BBC Radio 4 Fear on Four)
The Visitors’ Book – 1992 (15', short story, BBC Radio 4, reader Terence Edmond )
Life Line – 1993 (30’, BBC Radio 4, Fear on Four)
The Bedlam Detective – 2012 (Audiobook, Dreamscape Media, reader Michael Page)
The Kingdom of Bones – 2013 (Audiobook, Oakhill Publishing, reader Jonathan Keeble)
The Box – 2013 (30’, Hammer Chillers, Bafflegab Productions)
The Bedlam Detective – 2014 (Audiobook, Oakhill Publishing, reader Jonathan Keeble)
Nightmare Country – 2019 (Doctor Who: The Lost Stories, Big Finish Productions )
Warriors’ Gate – 2019 (Audiobook, BBC Audio, reader Jon Culshaw )
Casting the Runes – 2019 (M. R. James adaptation, Bafflegab Productions)
Terminus – 2019 (Audiobook, BBC Audio, reader Steven Pacey )
The Kairos Ring – 2021 (Audio original, BBC Audio, reader Steven Pacey )
Theatre
Short fiction - Collections
Comics
Key to collections: CA=Comparative Anatomy, OOHM= Out of his Mind, PM=Plots & Misadventures
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
Notes
A Mystery for Julie Chu
2021
Beyond the Veil, ed Mark Morris, Flame Tree Press
CA
Hunting magical memorabilia
Blame the French
2013
Twisted Histories, ed Scott Harrison, Snowbooks
CA
Odysseus in a pub
By the River, Fontainebleau
2001
"By the River, Fontainebleau". F&SF . 71 (2): 77– 90. August 1986.
OOHM
French Impressionist horror
Casey, Where He Lies
1991
Imagination 8, ed Ian Murphy, Kingfisher Press
OOHM
Master tape of the dead
Comparative Anatomy
1990
Night Visions 8, Dark Harvest
CA
Mystery sea cruise
Dead Man’s Handle
1990
Night Visions 8, Dark Harvest
Northern Chills, ed Graeme Hurry, 1994
Low-rent park ride haunting
DeVice
1991
Hotter Blood, ed Jeff Gelb
BDSM goes wrong
Doctor Hood
2003
The Dark, ed Ellen Datlow, TOR Books
PM
Scientific ghost hunt
Dracula
2018
Dark Mirages, ed Paul Kane, PS Publishing
Commissioned BBC screenplay, 2 parts
Driving Force
1989
Fear Magazine, ed John Gilbert, May/June 1989, July 1989 (in two parts)
OOHM
Meat eating car
EELS
2007
"Eels". Postscripts Magazine . 1 (10). Spring 2007.
CA
Eel breeding neighbour
Eternal Flame
2013
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, ed Jacob Edwards, issue 55
Magic gas tank
Fancy That!
1995
Shivers for Christmas, ed Richard Dalby, Michael O’Mara Books
OOHM
Rat breeder and customer
Feeding Frenzy
2001
Walking in Eternity, ed Julian Eales, Factor Fiction
Doctor Who charity short
God’s Bright Little Engine
1994
Tombs, ed Peter Crowther and Edward E Kramer, White Wolf Publishing
OOHM
Repairman revenant
Heroes and Villains (alt:Cheeky Boy)
2015
The Doll Collection, ed Ellen Datlow, TOR Books
CA
Creepy ventriloquism
Homebodies
1992
Dark at Heart, ed Karen and Joe R Lansdale, Dark Harvest
Precursor to Red, Red Robin
Hounded
2022
Bonus e-story, Subterranean Press
Scheming dogs
Hunter, Killer
1990
Night Visions 8, Dark Harvest
PM
A bit like Predator
In Gethsemane
1995
Heaven Sent, ed Peter Crowther, DAW Books
CA, OOHM
Conjuror vs Spiritualist
Jailbird for Jesus
2003
The Best British Mysteries, ed Maxim Jakubowski
PM
Convenience store, undercover cop
Life Line
1989
Dark Fantasies, ed Christopher Morgan, Legend
CA, OOHM
Haunted chat line
Like Clockwork
1987
"Like Clockwork". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction . 72 (3): 21– 35. March 1987.
PM
Body part replacement tech
Like Shadows in the Dark
1987
Shadows 10, ed Charles L Grant, Doubleday
OOHM
Precursor to The Boat House (1)
Little Angels
2004
Out of his Mind, collection, PS Publishing
CA, OOHM
Grandma’s revenge
Little Dead Girl Singing
2002
Darrell Schweitzer; George H Scithers, eds. (March 1987). "Like Clockwork". Weird Tales . 55 (3). DNA Publications.
CA, PM
Weird Child in a contest
Magpie
1991
Final Shadows, ed Charles L Grant, Doubleday
CA, OOHM
Schoolboy revenge
Melody James
2018
The Brooligan Press
The carny and the spy
Misadventure
2007
Inferno, ed Ellen Datlow, TOR Books
CA
Spooky leisure centre
Modus Operandi
1989
New Crimes, ed Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson
OOHM
Child and a burglary
Mousetrap
1992
The Little Book of Horrors, ed Sebastian Wolfe, Xanadu
Short short
My Repeater
2001
"My repeater". F&SF . 100 (1): 122– 136. January 2001.
CA, PM
Time travelling failures
Night Flight
2023
Great British Horror 8, ed Steve J Shaw, Black Shuck Books
Author stalks fan
Nightmare, with Angel
1983
"Nightmare, with Angel". F&SF . 65 (5). November 1983.
Arizona motel killer. Unrelated to the novel of the same title
No Life For Me Without You, Vodyanoi
1985
"No Life For Me Without You, Vodyanoi". F&SF . 69 (3). September 1985.
OOHM
Precursor to The Boat House (2)
Not Here, Not Now
1995
Cold Cuts 3, ed Paul Lewis, Steve Lockley, Alun Books
CA, OOHM
Reckless driver comeuppance
O, Virginia
1997
Shades of Blonde, ed Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge
CA, OOHM
Parts of the stars
Old, Red Shoes
1998
Jack the Ripper, ed Susan Casper and Gardner Dozois, Futura
OOHM
Ripper office pranksters
One Dove
2014
Subterranean Magazine, ed William Schafer, Subterranean Press
CA
Edwardian crime
Out of Bedlam
2012
Crimetime Online
Edwardian crime
Poisoned
1997
Kimota 6, ed Graeme Hurry
OOHM
Childhood accident with a twist
Restraint
2004
Postscripts Magazine 1, ed Peter Crowther, PS Publishing
CA, PM
Pursued by ex, night, road, kids
Ribbon of Darkness, Over Me
1989
"Ribbon of Darkness, Over Me". F&SF . 77 (2). August 1989.
Precursor to Down River
Shepherds’ Business
2017
New Fears, ed Mark Morris, Titan Books
CA
Scottish island horror
The Adventure of the Seven Unnatural Women
2022
Gaslight Ghouls, ed Charles Prepolec and J R Campbell
Sherlock Holmes
The Back of His Hand
1990
Night Visions 8, Dark Harvest
CA, PM
Tattoo removal shocker
The Backtrack
2022
Comparative Anatomy, Subterranean Press
CA
Buried secrets in a scrapped car
The Beautiful Feast of the Valley
2018
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories, ed Stephen Jones, Skyhorse Publishing
CA
Plutarch in the machine
The Blackwood Oak
2007
Plots and Misadventures (collection)
Hunting fairies with pickup truck and cattle prod
The Boy Who Talked to the Animals
1985
"The Boy Who Talked to the Animals". F&SF . 68 (2). February 1985.
CA
Theme park behind the scenes
The Box
2006
Retro Pulp Tales, ed Joe R Lansdale, Subterranean Press
CA
Haunted helicopter escape
The Bucket Woman
2006
British Fantasy Society calendar
Short short horror
The Butterfly Garden
2006
Joe R Lansdale’s Lords of the Razor, ed William Schafer and Bill Sheehan, Subterranean Press
CA
Teen of the Flies
The Drain
1990
Fantasy Tales, ed Stephen Jones, David A Sutton
OOHM
Kids on a quest
The Governess
2021
The Brooligan Press
CA
Winner of the Arthur Conan Doyle Society’s inaugural award for fiction
The Horn
1989
Arrows of Eros, ed Alex Stewart, New English Library
OOHM
Dead Mistress in a snowstorm
The Kairos Ring
2021
BBC Audio original
Dr Who spinoff novella
The Jigsaw Girl
1986
Shadows 9, ed Charles L Grant, Doubleday
OOHM
Fortune telling toy
The Plot
2006
Subterranean Magazine 5, ed William Schafer, Subterranean Press
CA, PM
Revenge on Victorian cleric
The Price
1985
"The Price". Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine . 9 (6). May 1985.
CA
Twist of fate
The Sluice
1992
Narrow Houses, ed Peter Crowther, Little, Brown
OOHM
Uncanny care home tale
The Visitors’ Book
1991
Darklands, ed Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press
CA, OOHM
Dread in a holiday home
The Wishing Ball
1987
Winter Chills 2, ed Peter Coleborn, British Fantasy Society
PM
Snuffing mom’s ex
To Dance by the Light of the Moon
1986
"To Dance by the Light of the Moon". F&SF . 70 (1). January 1986.
CA
Stalking the late night DJ
Twisted Hazel
2020
Tales of Dark Fantasy, ed William Schafer, Subterranean Press
CA
Young ghost made homeless
With Her in Spirit
2013
Thirteen (audio original), Fantom Publishing
Inspired by true story
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