There is a tree.

Tales from the Woldwood is a free archive of forty dark fantasy stories set in the Marchlands, a world of ancient magic, strange bargains and forgotten histories. In the Marchlands, there is a tree. The Durn Yew moves through the Woldwood, disappearing and reappearing, never in the same place twice. It is part relic, part living institution, part god that never asked to be worshipped. For centuries, it has held a series of strange realms tethered to the mortal world.

Edvane lives in the Woldwood. His home moves with the Yew, though not always to the same place. He keeps the archive. A record of the people and events of the Marchlands. The Tales from the Woldwood are drawn from that archive.

Deep beneath the roots of the Yew sits the Yewdeep. A vast community of root and amber. Within the Yewdeep, a door called the Groaning Gate sometimes opens into those tethered realms and sometimes remains closed to them. The first novel follows four people drawn to the Woldwood, down through the Yewdeep and into the Shivering Vale A kingdom of permanent winter slowly coming apart, though never quite collapsing fully.