A windswept island, a haunted hotel full of Lovecraftian horrors and a mysterious woman who may be an innocent swept up in the chaos, or who might have her own agenda entirely. No, this isn’t the tale of a weekend getaway gone horribly wrong, but instead the opening to homegrown Welsh horror title, Maid of Sker.
Set on the titular island, Maid of Sker is based very loosely on a Victorian novel of the same name, and set in the same era of the late 1800s. You play as Thomas Evans, who travels to the island and the Sker Hotel to investigate a letter from his fiancee Elisabeth Williams that, in grand weird-fiction tradition, only loosely hints at the strange goings-on in the hotel. ... [MORE]
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