“What if?” is key to this book of otherworldly terrors. The world of Through the Woods is of fairytale, of olden times when the dark was more unknown and more fearful, full of spirits and danger. Carroll’s characters go knowingly into danger, because they have no choice, or they find danger, incidentally, then have no power to ever escape it. By being smart and prepared they do not avoid their fate but delay it. Reason may allow you to live a life without fear, but by filling the darkness instead with terrors you acknowledge your mortality, and you prepare. Read More …