“Each book feels like a place you shouldn’t have found.”
— Reader ReviewStart Here
The front door into Blackwood’s fiction.
Book One — The Black Bothy
The opening record in The Archive Files. A remote bothy stands where the land begins to shift, footsteps repeat, and the path does not stay where you leave it.
Current Archive File
Book Four: Holdfast
A voice arrives before it is spoken. Records change. Memory no longer holds. The archive has begun to open.
The Archive Files
Read the records in order. Each file opens a little more of the archive.
Reading Order
Begin with The Black Bothy, then follow the sequence through The Drowned Fjord, The Erased Archivist, and Holdfast.
Book One — The Black Bothy
The first public record.
Book Two — The Drowned Fjord
The second file in the sequence.
Book Three — The Erased Archivist
The record begins to lose its own witness.
Book Four — Holdfast
The current archive file.
Book Routes
Use these routes to move through the archive in order.
Recovered Files
Open-access fragments connected to the Blackwood archive.
The Third Night
A recovered account connected to The Black Bothy. Not everything that comes back from the hills is meant to.
Read this if you want another account from the Black Bothy archive before, after, or alongside Book One.
The Gåtestein Log
A recovered journal fragment preceding The Drowned Fjord. A fishing vessel pulls something from the fjord. The water does not let go.
Read this recovered fragment before continuing into Book Two of The Archive Files.
Miren Vale
Dark literary fantasy, and ghost-soaked fiction shaped by inheritance, ritual, and the unseen.
The Crossing
Some invitations are not sent. They are answered.
When Isla opens an unmarked library book, a sealed letter falls from its pages. Her name is written on the fold. Inside are only two things: a place she does not know, and a time she cannot ignore.
Dark Literary Fantasy
Memory, ritual, coastal ruins, hidden trials, and old powers waiting beneath the surface.
Publication Date
21 Aug. 2026
Threshold Records
Miren Vale writes dark fantasy and folk horror rooted in isolated communities, old beliefs, ruined places, and the consequences of answering what should have been ignored.
Miren Vale
Fiction concerned with thresholds, inheritance, ritual, and what follows once the old warnings are ignored.
Other Blackwood Works
Standalone, related, and separate works beyond The Archive Files.
Hard Silence
Crime shaped by loyalty, consequence, and restraint.
Independent Works
Independent works rooted in place, memory, and psychological tension.
Includes Love, Abused: A Record of What Was Missed, a work of narrative nonfiction examining how a child’s life becomes a record.
Related / Limited Collections
Other doors into Blackwood’s places, records, and marked editions.
The Cursed Bothies
Remote Highland places where something waits.
A related route through isolated places, old shelter, and the unease of being watched by the land.
Marked for Record
Limited editions. Signed, numbered, and not always available.
Objects that do not return once they are gone.