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Kelso

by Ian Pritchard

Every welcome hides a warning.

  • 2 hr 20 min listen
  • 13 chapters
  • Published 7 March 2026
Folk HorrorWicker ManIsolated SettingNo EscapeTown SecretIsland HorrorFamily Under SiegeSurvival HorrorTrap and LureUncanny HospitalityCoastal HorrorUnderground HorrorPsychological HorrorHostile CommunityVacation HorrorBuried Secrets
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Summary

Something lives beneath the cliffs of a remote Scottish island — something that used to be human. Neil Farrow, barely holding himself together after a workplace tragedy that killed two colleagues, brings his wife Laura and teenage son Robbie to the island for a summer of healing. The twenty locals seem kind enough, if strangely guarded. But when voices rise from the sea caves at night and the ferry stops coming, Neil realizes the island doesn't let people leave. It collects them.

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Cinderella
★★★★☆

If the family had gone to the cliffs instead of just leaving and watching the locals herding the people back into the cliffs there would have been a totally different outcome. It just seemed like a cop out, especially on the father’s part.

Ty
★★★☆☆

Good read for a short story

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