There are countless reasons why the woods make for a great setting in novels. In the woods, it's easy for us to get lost, easy to think we're progressing towards a destination only to find ourselves back where we started, easy to disappear. In the woods, technology is unreliable, and often we find it best to leave our phones behind. Our senses are sometimes heightened and sometimes dampened. Creatures crawl in and out of sight. Often, we encounter a house, isolated, mysterious.