The Windsor Estate

The Windsor Estate is located on an island in the middle of a wide river across a bridge in the middle of a vast woods far from Cellar Hollow. The island itself is home to the sourwoods, a place of tragedy and horror. The center of the island is cleared away to reveal a green lawn with tiny hills. At the end of the lawn is the Windsor mansion, which is old, decayed, and sagging. Directly beside the mansion, and growing into it, is the wishing tree, around which nothing grows. At the other end of the lawn are the stables, and in the woods on the island is the night garden. The tree’s roots stretch out beneath the island, holding up the bridge and making it possible for the Night Gardener to travel only as far as the roots can grow. The roots are...