The young Arthur Machen gazed east from the window of his home in Llanddewi Rectory and wondered at the dark and sinister presence of Wentwood on the horizon. The forest haunted his imagination for the rest of his life, and was the setting for many of his most unsettling stories. Wentwood Tales is a series of individually published short stories by different writers, which take their cue from some of the underlying themes of Machen's work. Richard Gwyn's Hide and Seek, is the fifth in the series: a man's children disappear in a forest and he faces an agonising choice which changes his life for ever.