Stuart’s Reviews > The Wine Dark Sea > Status Update

5/14.5:3. The Trains. Read in We Are for the Dark.

5/9.5:2. The Wine-Dark Sea. Hypnotic dream like story with plenty of wonder and an abrupt awakening of an ending.

Your Tiny Hand is Frozen. 4.5. A very compelling story slightly let down by a confusing ending. Maybe it was just absurd by design, or maybe the flaky setting of the type in this book played a part. Either way it was abrupt and confusing in the home straight.

Reading selected stories in this book and The Late Breakfasters & Other Stories as substitute for Powers of Darkness in my chronological Aickman re-read 2025.