The Black Bothy (The Archive Files)

A year after her sister disappears in the Scottish Highlands, Mara Fraser returns, searching for answers.
But the bothy where Sorcha vanished holds more than memories. It echoes. It watches. And it’s been waiting.

Inside the remote stone shelter of Shena Vall, Mara finds her sister’s journal, a dying stove, and a voice recorder that plays back things she never said.
footprints that appear in perfect circles. Symbols etched in stone. And knocking that begins just after dark.

The land doesn’t want her to leave.
It may not even let her.

The Black Bothy
is a haunting folk horror debut that blends the raw ache of grief with the slow-burn dread of isolation, memory, and myth. For readers who like their horror atmospheric, deliberate, and rooted in ancient ground.

Perfect for fans The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley JacksonThe Ritual – Adam NevillGhost Wall – Sarah MossThe Loney – Andrew Michael HurleyDark Matter – Michelle PaverYou’ll A remote Highland bothy that breathesA recorder that speaks in your voiceFootprints where no one should beAnd something waiting that never left
The Archive Files
is a new folk horror series about places where memory lingers, silence feeds, and the past reshapes the present.
Each book can be read as a standalone.

About the AuthorAidan Blackwood writes unsettling fiction about the ghosts we carry. Grief, memory, and everything unspoken. Raised in West Dunbartonshire, he writes from the edge where myth and memory blur.
You’ll find him where the silence thickens.