There’s something especially unsettling about a mystery unfolding far from the rest of the world, where rough seas, dense forests, isolated villages, and long-buried secrets can make escape—or even getting help—nearly impossible. These recent atmospheric mysteries embrace the eerie possibilities of remote settings, pairing disappearances and suspicious deaths with folklore, insular communities, and landscapes that feel almost like characters themselves.
5 Gothic Mysteries Set In Remote Places
1. The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey
On a storm-battered Scottish island, two detectives investigating an apparent suicide encounter hostile locals, ancient folklore, and the unsolved disappearance of three lighthouse keepers.
2. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
When a teenage girl disappears from an Adirondack summer camp decades after her older brother vanished from the same property, a beautiful but dangerous wilderness becomes the backdrop for a family’s darkest secrets.
3. The Hunter’s Daughter by Nicola Solvinic
A woman returning to the remote Croatian island of her childhood becomes entangled in a dark mystery involving family secrets, local folklore, and the unsettling legacy of the place she thought she had escaped.
4. Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
On a tiny Welsh island in 1938, a beached whale, rumors of submarines, and the arrival of two mainland anthropologists unsettle an already isolated community as one young woman begins questioning everything she knows.
5. The Last One by Will Dean
After waking aboard a luxury cruise ship to discover that every other passenger and crew member has vanished, a young woman finds herself completely alone in the middle of the Atlantic—and trapped aboard a vessel with no obvious way home.
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