Shinjan
Braithe

Writing as S.B. Braithe · @shinstorieslive

I've always been drawn to places that feel like they have something left unsaid.

Not just the obvious landmarks or the postcard views — but the quiet streets, the forgotten corners, and the stories that sit just beneath the surface. The kind you don't always find in guidebooks.

This site sits somewhere between travel writing, folklore, and fiction. Some posts are based on real places I've visited. Others lean further into imagination — but even those are grounded in the same idea: that places carry history, atmosphere, and sometimes something harder to explain.

I'm also the author of The Land Demands Blood — a collection of three folk horror novellas rooted in the British landscape. And I make print-inspired pieces through the Shin Stories Etsy shop, for anyone who wants to carry a little of that atmosphere around with them.

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What you'll find here

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Travel

Destinations I've experienced first-hand — from city breaks to off-the-beaten-path locations. The focus isn't just on where to go, but how it feels to be there.

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Paranormal & Folklore

Locations tied to local legends, unexplained events, and historical hauntings. Not everything is taken at face value — but there's always a story worth exploring.

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Fiction

Original horror and paranormal stories, written under the name S.B. Braithe. Grounded settings that gradually shift into something darker — the unsettling made believable.

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The Shop

Print pieces on Etsy inspired by folk horror and landscape. Each design grows from the same dark soil as the writing. For those who want to wear the atmosphere.

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The Approach

The writing here — and in the fiction — follows what I think of as a Para Story approach. It starts in familiar, grounded settings: a road trip, a weekend away, a bus journey through beautiful countryside. Normal things. The kind of things that don't require explanation.

Then, gradually, something shifts. Not dramatically. Not with special effects. Just a quality of wrongness — small enough to dismiss, persistent enough to stay with you.

The aim is to make the unsettling feel believable. Not exaggerated. Not performed. Just there, the way it sometimes is, when you pay close enough attention to a place that has been here longer than you have.