Will Maclean
Author of THE APPARITION PHASE, co-writer/producer of the hit podcast BROKEN VEIL. New novel SOLACE HOUSE coming Spring 2026.

📚 Book review 📚This book had me leaving lights on and spooked by any noise I heard. It’s part psychological thriller, part horror, part mystery, and all fantastically good. The world-building in this story was amazing - I felt like I was in Solace house with the characters. The characters were skillfully developed and completely unique. The way Maclean wove in details that, at the time, seemed like just part of the story but were actually pivotal moments in the plot was masterful. I had no idea how this story would end, as lost as the characters when they ate the mushrooms, and I loved every page. #arcreader #arc #bookreviewer #arcreview #scary

📚 Book review 📚This book had me leaving lights on and spooked by any noise I heard. It’s part psychological thriller, part horror, part mystery, and all fantastically good. The world-building in this story was amazing - I felt like I was in Solace house with the characters. The characters were skillfully developed and completely unique. The way Maclean wove in details that, at the time, seemed like just part of the story but were actually pivotal moments in the plot was masterful. I had no idea how this story would end, as lost as the characters when they ate the mushrooms, and I loved every page. #arcreader #arc #bookreviewer #arcreview #scary

Tomorrow night!! The Tube strikes have been postponed, so you have no excuse for not making it along to the ONLY London event that I'm doing for COME SING FOR THE HARROWING. Also - Will Maclean and Lucie McKnight Hardy with my two favourite books of this year so far, Solace House and Night Babies. Tickets still available below!
https://www.waterstones.com/events/will-maclean-lucie-mcknight-hardy-and-dan-coxon-in-conversation/london-islington
#london #booklaunch #horror #horrorbooks
Was on the Wirral at the weekend, to visit the excellent West Kirby Books, and took the opportunity to walk across the vast empty beach, to the shores of the Dee, by Hilbre Island. It is so beautiful there. I do love how quietly epic it is.

Only one week to go! Join me, Will Maclean and Lucie McKnight Hardy at Waterstones Islington next Tuesday, for a discussion of all things strange and spooky. Solace House and Night Babies are both fantastic, so I strongly recommend picking up copies while you're there! Ticket link below.
https://www.waterstones.com/events/will-maclean-lucie-mcknight-hardy-and-dan-coxon-in-conversation/london-islington

I think Solace House might be the most disturbing book I've read in the last ten years. Even more than The Cipher by Kathe Koja. I mean I am going to read What If Reform Wins next so the record may soon be broken of course...

I think Solace House might be the most disturbing book I've read in the last ten years. Even more than The Cipher by Kathe Koja. I mean I am going to read What If Reform Wins next so the record may soon be broken of course...
BROKEN VEIL II
First four episodes available now.
“Made me shudder for a long time…
… I have no idea what will happen next…”
— Miranda Sawyer, The Observer
#brokenveil
Broken Veil I: available everywhere
Broken Veil II: only on Patreon
"immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist" @guardian
A very happy publication day to Will Maclean! The wonderfully weird and uncanny SOLACE HOUSE is out today from @atlanticbooks
Congratulations Will!
In the Summer of 1993, broke student Alex Lane joins a team clearing out Solace House, a Victorian mansion bequeathed to the university by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the lively, redheaded Ella.
When the crew begins sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flayne's journals, in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a place called Bewise, and - most mysteriously - his belief in another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached.
As the students delve deeper into the house's secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flayne's strange opus and its promise of another world... and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.
#publicationday #atlanticbooks #solacehouse
We are INCREDIBLY excited about Solace House - a new horror/mystery/??? from the fantastic Will Maclean. Available in store now!
How amazing is this video the publisher made using a quote from bookseller Rachel?
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