Gary hasn't always been a necromancer, but he has always lived in Port Washington.  Up until a decade ago, Gary was a fairly ordinary old coot living on the edge of town and running a small pig farm.  Until the 'Great Announcement', he was known for only two things.  First, it was well known that he tanned his own leather (he'd talk your ear off about the process) and sold some of the most awful wallets, belts, and bags you'd ever seen at the local farmer's market alongside bacon, chops and other cuts of meat.  Maybe 'sold' was a generous term, tried to sell might be better, though his bacon was always popular.  The other thing he was known for was going through wives.  Now, being known as Gary the Necromancer might make you suspicious about the fate of those wives, but the truth was, they didn't disappear, they just left him, and all of that came well before he got his current nickname.

Gary's transformation began a decade ago.  By most tellings of the story, he stumbled across a leather book at a garage sale in 2012.  This book turned out to be a rare copy of the Necronomnomacon (sic), a plagiarized knock-off of the infamous Book of the Dead.  It was shortly after this that a rash of disturbances was reported at one of the town's smaller cemeteries.  This came at a time of transition for the town, so, for the most part, was brushed aside as one of the lesser oddities (and attributed to a number of different 'suspects').  It wasn't until a few years ago when one of Gary's creations (Number Four to be precise) wandered off his farm and got into some trouble with his neighbors, burning down the porch of one and frightening a little girl playing near Treheim Lake.  There have been several incidents since, usually involving zombie-like constructs wandering the neighborhood, breaking down the occasional fence or door, flipping the occasional car, but most people have come to recognize Gary and his constructs as harmless nuisances.

Gary's in his late sixties, early seventies, currently single, and when not working can usually be found at The Empty Bottle.