Corrour Bothy: A slow burn Scottish folk horror of isolation, place, and convergence (The Cursed Bothies Book 1)

Some shelters protect. Others keep what enters them.Deep in the Cairngorms, a stone bothy stands beneath snow and wind, marked on maps as refuge. Walkers pass through. Some stay the night. Few speak of it after.Isobel arrives carrying the weight of a moment she cannot put down.Thomas follows with a history he has never fully left behind.Declan walks alone, drawn by something he does not name.They reach the bothy by different paths.They do not leave unchanged.Inside, the air settles into something dense and watchful. Outside, the landscape holds its silence too precisely. Footsteps carry where they should fade. Objects remain where they should not.The sense of being observed does not arrive suddenly. It builds.Corrour Bothy is the first entry in The Cursed Bothies, a series of interconnected novels shaped by isolation, memory, and the quiet pressure of place.Written in a restrained, atmospheric style, this is a novel of convergence, distance, and the gradual unravelling that occurs when separate lives are drawn into the same space. Read more