{"id":22280,"date":"2026-06-25T06:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/solace-house\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:11:49","slug":"solace-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/solace-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Solace House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read: Solace House by Will Maclean \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>After sudden scalding exposure to the late twentieth century, and the garish monomania of the supermarket, it was joyous to return to the hospital, to the house. I found that I wanted to immerse myself in Solace House and its environs, gather it around me, cloak myself in it. I didn\u2019t doubt, in that moment, that this was what Flayne had felt, sequestered here in his self-imposed exile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun Gothic horror with magic mushrooms. A narrator who becomes more &amp; more unreliable as the book gets weirder. I am not sure I really know what went on. Plenty of nineties details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: Solace House by Will Maclean \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da; After sudden scalding exposure to the late twentieth century, and the garish monomania of the supermarket, it was joyous to return to the hospital, to the house. I found that I wanted to immerse myself in Solace House and its environs, gather it around me, cloak myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[898,953],"tags":[1692,1597],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-22280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-book","7":"category-posse","8":"tag-will-maclean","9":"tag-1597","10":"post_format-post-format-status","11":"kind-article","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5Nm","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22281,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions\/22281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22280"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}