The Black Bothy: Some places keep what they take.

By Aidan Blackwood

It took her sister. It's not done yet.

What does it mean to witness something that cannot be confronted, escaped, or undone - and what does that witnessing cost?

When Sorcha Fraser vanished while hiking in the Scottish Highlands, all she left behind was a torn map, a voice recorder, and a journal filled with spirals. Her last known location was a remote bothy miles from the nearest road.

A year later, Mara returns to the same glen, searching for answers.

But the bothy is not abandoned.

It is waiting.

Each night brings footsteps that stop just outside the door. A voice moves through the wind. The hills carry sound in ways that feel deliberate. Memory does not settle here. It gathers. Mara begins to understand that the search was never only for her sister. Some places resist being left behind. Some keep what they take.

The Black Bothy is Book One of The Archive Files, a series of connected works shaped by place, memory, and unease.

For readers of slow-burn Scottish folk horror, psychological dread, isolated landscapes, and stories where place remembers what people try to forget.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F8B8TS5K
• ISBN13: 9798283385891
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"