299 – Will Maclean & Uneasy Islands in Time

In Solace House, Will Maclean takes us back to the 90s for a drug-fuelled trip through some mindbending architecture. It’s a chance to get nostalgic for a more innocent time, when the clothes were baggy, the music was better, and you could spend a summer spent renovating an old asylum without needing to put in on TikTok.

It’s all fun and games until the existential terror kicks in and the fabric of reality comes unwoven.

Enjoy. This one was a good laugh.

• The Apparition Phase (2020), by Will Maclean
• And He Shall Appear (2025), by Kate van der Borgh
• The Modern Antiquarian (1998), by Julian Cope
• The Prisonhouse of Language (1972), by Fredric Jameson
• The Human Evasion (1969), by Celia Green
• Starmaker (1937), by Olaf Stapledon
• A Short Stay in Hell (2009), by Steven L. Peck
• “The Jaunt,” in Night Shift (1978), by Stephen King
• The Divine Farce (2009), by Michael Graziano

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