Will Maclean
@willmac23.bsky.social
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
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
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
December 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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
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...
OUT NOW
A #BrokenVeil ghost story for Christmas.
Rosie Cavaliero and Carrie Quinlan in
TOND
pod.link/1745494718/e...
A #BrokenVeil ghost story for Christmas.
Rosie Cavaliero and Carrie Quinlan in
TOND
pod.link/1745494718/e...
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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...
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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Coming this week…
TOND: a Ghost Story for Christmas.
Full one-off audio drama from #BrokenVeil
Patreon.com/brokenveil
Coming this week…
TOND: a Ghost Story for Christmas.
Full one-off audio drama from #BrokenVeil
Patreon.com/brokenveil
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"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...
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...
Reposted by Will Maclean
Just got one of those AI-generated “let me promote your book” emails all writers are plagued with, only this time I am not the author of this work. Oh how I wish I were.
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Just got one of those AI-generated “let me promote your book” emails all writers are plagued with, only this time I am not the author of this work. Oh how I wish I were.
The ghost of Epworth Rectory, from Sacheverell Sitwell’s “Poltergeists”, 1940 #PhantomsFriday
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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...
#gallifreypals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9b2...
Paula...!? | Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | American's React First Time | Ep 1 Once Upon a Beginning
YouTube video by Gallifrey Pals
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November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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...
#gallifreypals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9b2...
Charlie Brown is the warmest place to hide
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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.
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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 Maclean
Trump 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.
All true patriots should tell them both: hands off our BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trump 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.
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...
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...
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This is the same James Bond who has regenerated half a dozen times into an entirely different person? I think he'll be fine.
All in all, I really enjoyed ‘Frankenstein’. Someone should make a film of it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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
Please quote tweet this like you’re super mad about it
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Oh what I’m your unpaid PR person now is that it
THIS, FOREVER.
Me, giggling like a goblin, strapping myself into the BBC Boss chair, commissioning non-celeb sitcom & sketch show after another. High concept narrative comedies by women! 100 shows with writers rooms! Tell whatever celeb blokes are doing a travel show they can make their own way back from Bordeaux!
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
THIS, FOREVER.
We didn’t bother with a bonfire this year, or an effigy on top. Zero Fawkes given.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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)
I just read this, and would definitely recommend it. Sometimes, on finishing a book, one can feel bereft at being chucked out of that world (even if that world is unappealing, like the early '70s. I was there, and it wasn't great). Anyway, this was one of those books; 'WTF am I gonna do now?'
As we're WELL into spooky season now, might I take this chance to once again recommend my 1970s-set ghost story The Apparition Phase, which first came out in 2020. As I always say, if you like ghosts, chances are you'll like this. Whoooo! etc.
www.waterstones.com/book/the-app...
www.waterstones.com/book/the-app...
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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.
OUT NOW! ON THE BROKEN VEIL CHANNEL
NEW EPISODE!
Discomfort Blanket is not a number. It is a free podcast.
(Well, a free podcast if you support the Broken Veil channel on Patreon for as little as a couple of quid...)
patreon.com/BrokenVeil
NEW EPISODE!
Discomfort Blanket is not a number. It is a free podcast.
(Well, a free podcast if you support the Broken Veil channel on Patreon for as little as a couple of quid...)
patreon.com/BrokenVeil
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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…
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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
He stood trunkless on the sandias
Behold his sneer of cold commandias
Poor old Ozymandias
‘Cos transience
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
There once was a man called Ozymandias
He stood trunkless on the sandias
Behold his sneer of cold commandias
Poor old Ozymandias
‘Cos transience
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
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“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
“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”
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“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”