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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13h

It's mine. What are you doing there and how the hell did you get in?

Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13h

They should put all 4 Beatles films out on the same day but pull the John Lennon one off screens suddenly without warning much earlier than all the rest. Too soon?

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13h

"Next week we're going to tell this nice old nana her dog's been run over. Don't miss it!"

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13h

Why is he boasting about upsetting 92 year olds? That's a bit weird.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Re-read The Last Battle recently and it's all over the bloody shop. Plus what he does to Susan makes me want to dig him up and hoof him in the bollocks. #literarycriticismintheLeavisstyle

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Come and see me speaking ill of the dead. (Just like I did the whole time he was alive.)

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sadly you don't get to experience Ian and I duetting on "The Day We Went to Rothesay-o", as inspired by the tie. Helen and Andy REALLY enjoyed that bit. bsky.app/profile/priv...

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Things to enjoy in the latest Private Eye podcast: 1) Righteous fury about Jeffrey Archer 2) Macqueen tartan tie 3) Gratuitous appearance of not one but TWO of my books on camera (and neither of them is the one I've got out now)

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This has to be the most depressingly desultory attempt at a Halloween window display in existence. I kept out.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My mum was furious about the very concept of restaurant critics. "They go out, and they get given their dinner, they should just be grateful."

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m keeping some good company…

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Hobbe’s Folly: “Adam Macqueen has built his novel like the folly at its heart: plain on the outside, airtight on the inside, and holding something you must never let out. Two timelines, one cold room, and an ending that pays off every clue it planted.”

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I contained Archer in one chapter of the book. At one point Johnson featured in *every single section*.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I recorded the Eye podcast today with Ian. If you liked this, you might want to listen this week…

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So I recorded the Eye podcast today with Ian. If you liked this, you might want to listen this week…

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Feel quite strongly I deserve some sort of workplace award for getting an Einstürzende Neubauten joke into the current Private Eye.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Are they trying to fat-shame the tiger here, or have they used this because they were unable to say how much its house was worth?

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Of course there are other online booksellers - gigantic ones, even - but some things are just too horrific even to think about. Don’t have nightmares.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Of course if you’re too terrified to leave the house at all, there’s also bookshop dot org - this link benefits my brilliant local bookstore The Waves, but you can nominate your own independent bookseller too. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hobb...

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Hobbe's Folly

Some truths should stay guarded Hobbe’s Folly is a deeply unsettling tale of ghostly estates and other dimensions by Adam Macqueen, author of Haunted Tales. 1904: Naive bookseller's assistant Henry Ca...

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Get your copy in time for Halloween - but be sure to hurry past any windowless buildings you pass on the way to the bookshop without looking too closely, because you never know what might be locked away in there...

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And Joel Morris - @gralefrit.bsky.social of the superb podcast Broken Veil - was hooked too.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here’s what Jake Arnott - whose own terrifying ghostbstory Netherwood is out now - said when he read it.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hobbe’s Folly is the result. And it’s in bookshops now.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But when it’s all that’s standing in the way of a new housing development, people finally ask the question – what the hell is hiding inside?

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That’s the starting point for my new ghost story, Hobbe’s Folly. A brick building, standing in the middle of a field, with no windows and no door, that’s been forgotten for more than a century.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Besides, what do you know about what’s *really* inside? Isn’t that just the sort of thing people would say, to keep others away and stop them from investigating too closely?

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know the rational-minded among you will say they’re just bits of infrastructure – waterworks, electricty substations, things like that. But those of us who grew up in the 1970s and 80s don’t need @scarredpodcast.bsky.social to tell us just how terrifying those can be.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And once you start noticing them, you realise just how sinister they are. Some of them even warn you off with predictions of dire consequences for anyone who goes near.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Once you start looking, you realise they’re everywhere. On the streets you walk down every day. Out of the window on your train journey to work.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A while ago I started noticing these. Strange windowless buildings, so nondescript that they seem to fade into the landscape around them.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And they've got stickers on now saying "signed by author"...

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I would totally admit to it (I've done it before) but I 100% didn't this time! And right by the front door too. It's made my publication day...

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fuck me, I'm in Waterstones alongside @stephenking.bsky.social . Fanboying quite hard.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ll be back later to tell you a bit more about the story, and the real-life terrors that inspired it. In the meantime, I would very strongly advise you not to go breaking into any strange windowless buildings you might come across…

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here’s what @gralefrit.bsky.social of the incredible Broken Veil thought of it. (If you haven’t listened yet, that should be the SECOND thing you do today).

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And today comes the blood-chilling follow-up.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two years ago, @swiftpress.bsky.social gathered together nine of them and published them in time for Halloween.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 2005 I started writing a ghost story every Christmas and sending them to friends and family instead of cards. Nervously, I described myself in that first Christmas email as “the pound shop M.R. James”.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When I was 4, I dictated a story to my mum about a dragon who met a ghost. When I was 14, I wrote this, which got me full marks from my heroic English teacher Mr Rowe, and publication in the school magazine.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For as long as I can remember, I‘ve been writing ghost stories.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did someone called Yua come between them?

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Which is weird, because I was under the impression that was exactly what Wales was like.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Man City in cheating shock The new Private Eye is out now.

A photo of the front cover of issue 1685 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The cover is a “Football Special” and reads “MAN CITY IN CHEATING SHOCK”. It shows Andy Burnham on a football pitch, with the captions “They’ve brought in a new defender!” and “He’s playing at No. 10!” The bottom of the cover reads: “YES! IT’S THE BOOTY-FUL GAME!”

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