Mythago Wood (1984)

Ryhope Wood occupies a small patch of Herefordshire yet opens into a much larger interior, where inherited stories can take bodily form. A family's fascination with it makes the uncanny painfully personal. The forest offers no neutral place from which to study its wonders: entering means becoming implicated. This is a dark, obsession-driven start to the Mythago cycle, with violence and disturbing desires beneath the woodland beauty.