Children of the Salt Marsh

A coastal town hides a horrifying secret: every child is born with gills that seal shut after seventy-two hours. To the townspeople, it's normal—but the truth is far darker. Claire Winslow, a skeptical school nurse, arrives to find a community obsessed with silence and compliance. Strange behaviors, whispered warnings, and children who vanish into the foggy salt marsh draw her into a nightmare she cannot escape. The marsh is alive, ancient, and hungry, claiming those who resist with gruesome consequences. Claire uncovers cryptic rituals, the town's sinister pact with something older than humanity, and the horrifying reality of what it truly means to belong—or to resist. As fog, brine, and whispers close in, she confronts an incomprehensible force beneath the water, where the line between human and monstrous dissolves. Children of the Salt Marsh is a relentless supernatural horror filled with suspense, creeping dread, grotesque transformation, and chilling revelations. If you dare to peer into the fog, the marsh will show you its secrets… horror, supernatural, coastal town, salt marsh, gills, eerie children, psychological horror, suspense, transformation, ancient entity, dark secrets, marsh horror, chilling story, terrifying, grotesque.