SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Feb 25, 2021
4 minutes
The Apparition Phase
Will Maclean
William Heinemann 2020
Hb, 406pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781785152375
We all know that is inspirational – and it’s inspired three very different novels. First, directly influenced by Bob Fischer’s article “The Haunted Generation” (), Will Maclean’s is an extraordinarily powerful account of growing up in the Seventies. Teenage twins Tim and Abi love all things weird; the attic where they spend much of their time is filled with books on ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. But when they fake a photo of a ghost to scare a fellow pupil, have they created (or released) a real and malevolent supernatural power? No spoilers to the plot; just to say that
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