“Going into the woods at night. I just never think ... and the wild life I wanted. But the dark wasn’t dangerous, I told myself. It was just scary. And fear, I hoped, could be fixed.

But Death decides to spare Otto, and the young man walks away from the battlefield into the nearby woods ... scary castles and villagers terrified of evil spirits - thrown into the dark mix.

I often hear people talking about stories, usually ghost stories that involve hearing something in the woods that they can't see and they can't place and it moves around in the dark,' she said.