McChesney, Iain

Iain is a writer of gothic mysteries. He was born and raised in Scotland, where he studied History and Geography at the University of Glasgow. The World Wars left Iain's family with generations of widows. As a result, Iain has always been interested in the tangible effects of history on family dynamics and in the power of narrative to awaken those long dead. For the characters in The Curse of Malenfer Manor, he drew on childhood reminiscences and verbal family history--though he hastens to add that his family had barely a penny, far less a manor, and any ghosts dwelt only in memory. He lives i...