Will Maclean
@willmac23.bsky.social
Writer of the novel "The Apparition Phase", Audible's comedy/drama "High Strangeness", and the paranormal investigation podcast "Broken Veil". Along with lots of other stuff.
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
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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”
Hard agree.
I get it daylight savings; I too like to get dark before it's appropriate.
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hard agree.
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This is gonna be AMAZING
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is gonna be AMAZING
Doing this next week! Come along!!! Say hi!!!
Only a week to go until our event at Waterstones Islington! Join me, Will Maclean, Claire Fuller & Ally Wilkes as we discuss short stories, haunted houses, and our new anthology UNQUIET GUESTS (out now, Dead Ink Books). Tickets and more details in the thread below! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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
What horror movie did you see WAY too young?
Mine was Poltergeist.
Mine was Poltergeist.
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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
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...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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...
Literary fiction is a genre, same as any other, with the same small toolkit of tricks and tropes and cliches as any other genre. It's also one of the easiest to do badly and still be taken seriously.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Literary fiction is a genre, same as any other, with the same small toolkit of tricks and tropes and cliches as any other genre. It's also one of the easiest to do badly and still be taken seriously.
Was coincidentally reminded of the existence of this last night, so putting it up for National Poetry Day. What an amazing thing. www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-disu...
Poetry By Heart
www.poetrybyheart.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Was coincidentally reminded of the existence of this last night, so putting it up for National Poetry Day. What an amazing thing. www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-disu...
The greatest album you've never heard turned 30 last month. Enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUl4...
Woob - Woob² 4495 (Full Album)
YouTube video by Richard Holter
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October 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The greatest album you've never heard turned 30 last month. Enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUl4...