Daniel P. Coughlin was born and raised in a small town in southern Wisconsin. At the age of 19 he joined the United States Marine Corps and served four and a half years as a Machinegunner in the infantry. After being Honorably discharged, Daniel attended and graduated from California State University at Long Beach. While studying screenwriting under the mentorship of acclaimed writer Brian Alan Lane, he also interned and served as a script analyst for his favorite director Wes Craven.
Daniel is the author of two commercially successful films — Lake Dead, which was selected as one of After Dark Film’s 8 Films to Die For, and Farmhouse, starring A-List film and television star Steven Weber (Wings, Deperation, Single White Female). He has sold numerous short stories to such publications as Strange Tales of Horror, Macabre Cadaver Magazine, and Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine. Daniel was hailed by Macabre Cadaver Magazine as, “A Promising New Voice in Old School Horror.”