Will Maclean
Writer of The Apparition Phase, the comedy/drama High Strangeness, co-writer/presenter of the podcast Broken Veil. New novel, Solace House, coming next spring from Atlantic Books
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- I'm also doing THIS on Feb 27th/28th so please come along! Something for everyone! (Unless you're a fusty old Edwardian academic who deserves some kind of supernatural comeuppance)
- Fighting in the Hundred Years War
- TV Commissioner: I think the main problem with this IP is that the main character is not connecting with the key demographic. So, instead of “Auld” let’s call him “Incredible New” and instead of “Lang Syne” let’s call him “Shmoo”. Rabbie Burns: What
- Have a jumpy, unsettling NYE, everyone! X
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- He’s making a list, He’s checking it twice And a third time, And then he stands accused of losing the list Yet his is the only name on it, Franz Kafka is coming to town
- It's here! Joel Morris and I wrote a ghost story for the long winter nights, and Rosie Cavaliero, Carrie Quinlan, Josienne Clark and Victoria Moss breathed strange life into it. Turn off the lights and gather round the fire's glowing embers...
- "I need to tell this story..." Arriving this week - an all-new audio ghost story for Christmas starring Rosie Cavaliero and Carrie Quinlan, written by myself and Joel. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Dim the lights and prepare yourself...
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- The ghost of Epworth Rectory, from Sacheverell Sitwell’s “Poltergeists”, 1940 #PhantomsFriday
- Something different for #phantomsfriday - this HOT MALE ghost from the cover of Time Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown, 1989. Keep back ladies, he’s married! Sorry, “buried”. Because he’s dead.
- Kat and Paula are doing all of Garth Marenghi's DarkPlace and I for one could not be happier. Do Blake's 7 next!!! #gallifreypals www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9b2...
- Charlie Brown is the warmest place to hide
- There is an idea of a Charlie Brown, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
- For #PhantomFriday - a sad-looking ghost from Time Life’s book of Hauntings, from the 80s. What’s he got to be sad about, in the 80s?! Maybe he’s just watched Threads.
- Storm Claudia today. A low fringe of high pressure accompanied by impressive bangs, with something something orange make up something traitors something see this joke all day over social media happy Friday everyone
- Throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em around like you just don't care! OK, now wave 'em around as if you care a bit, but can't show it. Now wave 'em around as if you're an illiterate peasant girl in 18th century Austria whose dog has just died. Yes I've never DJ'ed before you're quite right
- Reposted by Will MacleanTrump wants to destroy the BBC and take our money. And Nigel Farage is egging him on. All true patriots should tell them both: hands off our BBC.
- This is the same James Bond who has regenerated half a dozen times into an entirely different person? I think he'll be fine.
- James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.” Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says: “You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream." radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
- All in all, I really enjoyed ‘Frankenstein’. Someone should make a film of it.
- Oh what I’m your unpaid PR person now is that it
- THIS, FOREVER.
- Well that was the best hour of TV in YEARS #Traitors
- We didn’t bother with a bonfire this year, or an effigy on top. Zero Fawkes given.
- Comments like the one below ALWAYS make a writer's day, and are incredibly welcome and kind. If you've loved a book, do try and tell the author! (NB: this doesn't work with dead ones)
- It's here! Joel and I discuss Fall Out, the to-this-day still gobsmacking final episode of the ultimate cult TV show, The Prisoner. The bones is yours, my daddy.
- I haven’t talked about this much yet, but I cannot WAIT for people to read the book I’ve been writing for a very long time. Not long to wait now before it’s out there…
- There once was a man called Ozymandias He stood trunkless on the sandias Behold his sneer of cold commandias Poor old Ozymandias ‘Cos transience
- “My name is Ozymandias/my works are quite splendandimus/ Look on them now/and then say “wow!”/ “Give this guy a handimus!” - theme from the cartoon series “Ozymandiacs”, 1996-98
- GONNA STOP NOW
- “Hi, I’m Ozymandias, King of Kings. If you’d like to look on my works and despair, please press 1. If you’d like to study my shattered visage, press 2. Press 3 to return to the main menu”
- Hard agree.
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- This is gonna be AMAZING
- some news deadline.com/2025/10/alic...
- Doing this next week! Come along!!! Say hi!!!
- The Amityville Horror. A frequently daft and OTT movie if youre an adult. I saw it as a kid and it literallly poured out of the screen in a tsunami of absolute dread
