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New library books
These works of horror are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Solace House” by Will Maclean Taking a summer job clearing out a decaying Victorian mansion, a group of university students becomes absorbed in the unsettling journals of a former owner whose writings hint at a hidden realm and secrets buried within the house. “Mazywood” by Tananarive Due A filmmaker takes his pregnant wife and teenage daughters to his late grandmother’s secluded California lodge.
Solace House | Bookreporter.com
A college student’s summer gig takes a dark turn in Will Maclean’s mind-bending fever dream of a novel, SOLACE HOUSE. It’s the early 1990s, and Alex Lane has finished his first year at university. While his wealthy friends are making plans to jet off to Florida and Greece over their upcoming summer break, he’s at loose ends.
Will Maclean on F*cking Up a Notebook to Write a Novel
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement There’s a great artist called Bobby Fingers whose YouTube channel documents him making insanely detailed sculptures of celebrities, taking the viewer on a journey through his creative process as he does so.
Will Maclean’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Solace House
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Will Maclean’s Solace House melds a gothic novel with dark academia brilliantly.
Fiona Dodwell, Author at MiS Magazine
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The Apparition Phase
Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review. Suburbia in the early seventies, twins Tim and Abi live in a world mostly of their own making. One in which they can pursue their interest in folklore, the unexplained and apparitions. Obsessed with photographs that, allegedly, show ghostly figures they fake one of their own and use it to frighten a girl at their school.
Heartbeat and Holby City actor Sophie Ward joins Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart on Society of Authors literary shortlist
Heartbeat and Holby City actor Sophie Ward joins Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart on Society of Authors literary shortlist Actor and writer Sophie Ward and Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart are among six writers shortlisted for the 2021 McKitterick Prize. A total of 34 authors have been shortlisted by the Society of Authors for five annual awards and a prize fund worth over �100,000.
Oil Paintings that Rewrite History by Kajahl
As in many areas of history, Black narratives have long been erased and misrepresented in the arts. When looking at historical portraiture it is rare to see Black subjects, and when they are seen, it is in the racist light of colonialism. Most infamous among the misrepresentation of Black subjects in art is the concept of blackamoors, a fictional depiction of Black people seen in sculpture, jewellery, and furniture.
9 Days of the Earworm: How a Song Drove Me Insane
I don’t know exactly where it began, but I do know it was a coffee bar of some kind, about two weeks ago. One that has a random mix of songs playing in the background to put people at their ease. You know the kind of thing—soft rock classics from long ago, nothing that tends toward the esoteric or experimental. Just straight up adult-oriented rock, bland as porridge, intended to form a cozy backdrop to the process of buying and drinking coffee.
The Apparition Phase
'A delight for both the expert and the uninitiated, this creepy tale is a carapace of cosy nostalgia wrapped round a solid thread of dread ... A page turner that keeps you in dreaded suspense of what you are about to be shown ... A claustrophobic and entertaining read that left me breathless ... Horror for the connoisseur.' ALICE LOWE 'Hallucinatory brilliance ...
The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean
zoom Will Maclean (author) £14.99 Hardback 416 Pages / Published: 29/10/2020 We can order this from the publisher Usually dispatched within 10 working days Quantity This item has been added to your basket SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2021 'A delight for both the expert and the uninitiated, this creepy tale is a carapace of cosy nostalgia wrapped round a solid thread of dread ... A page turner that keeps you in dreaded suspense of what you are about to be shown ...
The Apparition Phase
'A delight for both the expert and the uninitiated, this creepy tale is a carapace of cosy nostalgia wrapped round a solid thread of dread ... A page turner that keeps you in dreaded suspense of what you are about to be shown ... A claustrophobic and entertaining read that left me breathless ... Horror for the connoisseur.' ALICE LOWE ___________________________________ Tim and Abi have always been different from their peers.
If You Didn't Have Facebook or Twitter, Who Would You Call?
Say hello. Don’t text them, and definitely don’t reach out via Facebook, or any other social media. Because, as we all know, people are different there. They’re not as open, not as honest. And "liking" their status or making any other faux-connection online is not the same as seeing people face to face, finding out where they are in their lives, what they really think and feel.
9 Days of the Earworm: How a Song Drove Me Insane
I am like Job. That’s what’s going on here. Tormented by God, without knowing why. Why me, Lord? I bet even the session musicians and engineers who worked on “P**** i* t** D***” didn’t think about it half as much as I have these last few days. The worst part of it is, I can tell no one about this, lest it infect them too.
Black Friday in the U.K.
So while we’re at this cultural exchange thing, I think we should send a holiday tradition from the UK to you. Just to say thanks for our first Black Friday. But which one? Hm. Let me see. Dusting off my Big Book of Obscure British Folklore, I pass over the Winter Solstice Horn Dance to arrive instead at the Welsh tradition of the Mari Lwyd.
"Sorry, That's Not Me." My Life Looking Like Someone Else.
Far and away the strangest manifestation of this effect was bumping into a friend of mine I used to see all the time, as she lived in the same building as I did. She greeted me normally, then asked, “Did you manage to get to your meeting on Monday?” I explained that I’d had no meeting on Monday. She said I had, and that’s where I’d been headed for when she saw me on Oxford Street. I wasn’t in town that Monday, I explained. I was at home. I hadn’t been into town for weeks.
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