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.
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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?
Five days till Solace House is published! So here’s another page from my Solace House notebook. A self-portrait by Richard Dadd. Nobody has ever painted a picture with the same intensity and fascination as The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke, and I don’t think anybody ever will. Dadd was already part of the story when - bizarrely- somebody dumped the catalogue of 19th century art that this picture came from on a wall on my road.
